The thesis of this paper is that an analysis of the GP budget holding proposal (in 'Working for Patients'), in the light of the US HMO movement and the managed care industry it has spawned, will provide valuable insight into how the British innovation might function, or not. The paper ...
The care given to a random sample of adults who died in 1987 is described retrospectively by relatives and others who had known them. Most praised, or were satisfied with, the care given by general practitioners but both the statistics and the quotations reveal some disconcerting inadequacies in this care, ...