Objective: To use data from the fourth national survey of morbidity in general practice to
investigate the association between home visiting rates and patients' characteristics. Design …

Before the National Health Service began general prac-titioners invited consultants into their
patients' homes to give a specialist opinion.'Home visiting has continued, and the annual …

BACKGROUND: To date there has been no detailed analysis of the profile of home visit
patients, and the extent of any changes over time in Australian general practitioner home …

Providing services traditionally associated with secondary care in the community is a feature
of health policy both in Britain and abroad.“Hospital at home” is currently a popular response …

There are large differences in how often general practitioners refer patients to hospital.'14
These differences are attracting growing attention-partly from the Department of Health and …

Introduction Medical care of homebound patients by home visits is an integral part of primary
care in Germany and other industrialised countries. Owing to the sociodemography and …

Methods This paper describes the structure and activities of NHS walk-in centres, based on
several sources of information. Each walk-in centre provides monthly “monitoring returns” …

In preventive health services the old axiom that lack of evidence is not evidence of lack is
important. No one should be surprised that the meta-analysis undertaken by Elkan et al (p …

The national figure of 12% for non-attendance at outpatient clinics in the United Kingdom
hides large variations between specialties and between regions. Studies report figures that …

Objective: To examine socioeconomic differences in general practice consultation rates
among patients aged 65 years and over. Design: Secondary analysis of data from the fourth …