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From General Practice to Primary Care - The industrialization of family medicine (Paperback)
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From General Practice to Primary Care - The industrialization of family medicine (Paperback)
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Anxiety about medicine becoming impersonal and mechanised permeates
the NHS. In addition, the popular media is full of stories about
the health service and its unhappy staff, focusing on the belief
that professionals and patients are being turned into assembly-line
workers and objects. This is particularly prevalent in general
practice, as plans for massive policlinics are revealed and payment
systems shift seemingly inexorably towards incentives and targets.
The ethos of family medicine, which places so much stress on
continuity of care, psychosocial understanding of illness, and the
careful management of doubt, is challenged by guidelines,
governance, quality frameworks, and patient satisfaction surveys.
General practice is being industrialized into primary care, or so
it can seem.
This book explores the many dimensions of industrialization as it
has occurred to other professions in the past, and analyses the
origins of the current wave of reform in general practice. It
analyses why industrialization is being pursued as a government
strategy, and explores its benefits and dangers. It concludes that
the medical profession has reasons for being perturbed by
industrialization, but that it has advantages as well as
disadvantages for the NHS and the public. Its conclusions may not
please either policy makers or practitioners, but they offer ways
for professionals working in the community to customise current
changes in potentially beneficial ways.
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