Primary health care sciences / edited by Jane Sims. - London : Whurr, 1999. - 246p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Primary care in context--2. The organizational development of primary care--3. Nursing: responding to the primary care-led NHS--4. Promoting interperprofessional collaboration: the multi-disciplinary face of primary health care.--5. Pharmacy and primary health care.--6. Primary mental health care--7. Service innovations at the primary-secondary interface: the example of hospital-at-home.8. Information technology in primary care--9. The patient perspective--10. Education for working in the \'new\' NHS--The way forward.

What are primary health care sciences? In this state-of-the-art synthesis of current knowledge, the phrase broadly encompasses the discovery, creation, accumulation and refinement of knowledge pertinent to primary health care.

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Primary health care--Great Britain
Primary care (Medicine)--Management--Great Britain
Community health services--Great Britain
General practice

RA427.9 / .P7 1999

362.10941 SIM