The organisation of group practice : a report of a sub-committee of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee.

  • Great Britain. Standing Medical Advisory Committee
Date:
1971
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Credit: The organisation of group practice : a report of a sub-committee of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOREWORD This report by a Sub-Committee of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee has been submitted to us by the Central Health Services Council. It develops the concept of group practice and outlines the role and place of community health teams in a unified health service. This concept embodies the positive aspects of current community care and the report emphasises the importance of flexibility in organisation and the need for experiment. It thus has equal relevance in the period before unification. We regard the report as a valuable contribution towards current thinking about general practice and its place in the health service as a whole. We are sure that it will stimulate discussion among all individuals, professions, organisations and authorities concerned with the National Health Service, particularly during the preparatory stage of unification. We for our part shall be giving the report further study, and we have in mind formally to invite the professional and lay organisa- tions most closely concerned to send us their views on the recommendations it contains. We shall then consider whether there is any specific or general guidance which we could usefully give. KEITH JOSEPH Secretary of State for Social Services PETER THOMAS Secretary of State for Wales. i
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