Background Increasing chronic conditions and multimorbidity is placing growing service
pressures on health care, especially primary care services. This comes at a time when GP …

Objectives The objectives are to determine the factors that motivated GP practice managers
in England to employ non-medical roles, and to identify an ideal hypothetical GP practice …

World-wide, shortages of primary care physicians and an increased demand for services
have provided the impetus for delivering team-based primary care. The diversity of the …

The concept of skill mix is widely recognised in the vocabulary of the National Health
Service (NHS) workforce but because of its complexity is understood, elusive to define and …

OBJECTIVE: Changing workforce skill-mix is one strategy for improving the effectiveness
and efficiency of health care. Our aim was to summarise available research into the success …

Background General practices have had difficulty recruiting and retaining enough general
practitioners to keep up with increasing demand for primary health care in recent years …

Background The diversification of types of staff delivering primary care may affect
professional, population, and system outcomes. Aim To estimate associations between …

Objectives Health policy and funding initiatives have addressed increasing workloads in
general practice through the deployment of clinicians from different disciplinary …

Introduction Seeing and treating patients in daily practice forms the basis of general
practitioner (GP) training. However, the types of patients seen by GP trainees do not always …

General practice has undergone considerable change in the last two decades. New roles for
nurses working in general practice have extended to include tasks that were previously …