We do almost exactly that, and it works really well. I wrote about it in
Financial Pulse a while back. We have 4.5 whole time equivalent partners.
Andrew
Dr. Andrew N. Herd MRCGP [log in to unmask]
Family Physician, Medical Adviser to Durham Health Authority
Lecturer in Primary Care, Durham University
Medical Editor, Practice Computing
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan & Jan Sambrook <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 26 January 1998 08:04
Subject: Re: The two main problems with general practice
>
>-In one practice where I spent a week as a registar, they had a rota in
>which every morning one of the 6 doctors would be in reception taking phone
>calls and all the visit requests, requests for urgent prescriptions etc and
>processing them there and then. He/she then did a short emergency surgery,
>usually up to 8 patients, who were fit to be seen rather than visited, and
>shared the few remaining visits out between all the doctors. It worked
>really well, but I haven't seen it used anywhere else. I guess you need at
>least 5 or 6 doctors to make it work.
>
>Jan :)
>
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