Increasing the numbers of people with hepatitis B being tested, regularly monitored and treated in primary care settings will require additional systems-strengthening activity.
Morgan’s organisational metaphors are one example of a management conceptual model that might help us illuminate the prisms of presupposition and assumption that we hold about organisations.
GPs will need to adapt rapidly to change, seizing opportunities offered by disruptive technology in a globalised world affected by climate change.
We need to count what counts if we want to ensure modern workforce approaches can indeed produce a fit-for-purpose generalist workforce that is able to meet the needs of the communities we serve.
The focus is shifting to how best to enable GPs to deliver effective, efficient and equitable care.
The demonstrated youth-centricity of the general practices associated with QUT, UNSW and UniMelb contrasts with traditional general practice.
Pre-consultation patient-directed reminders could be an effective tool to increase preventive care for patients with T2DM in general practice.
Exposure to domestic and family violence has lifelong impacts on physical health and life expectancy and increases hospitalisation and healthcare usage.
Home visits may change patients’ healthcare resource utilisation, including hospital admission, medications, outpatient and emergency room visits.
Low use of care planning and reviews presents an opportunity for general practitioners to improve care.
International evidence suggests that systems with a focus on primary healthcare have better health outcomes and lower health costs.
Ensuring general practitioners receive timely discharge medication information will enable them to safely continue the patient’s care in the community.
General practice pharmacists used their expertise in medication to conduct mainly clinically related activities to support patients and GPs and this increased with time in the role.
With more than 25% of patients attending more than one general practice in the previous year, the quality and continuity of care for multiple practice attenders requires further investigation.
Despite recent exponential growth in research on familial hypercholesterolaemia, there remains a general lack of public and health professional awareness about the disorder.