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There are more than 31,000 general medical practitioners in the United Kingdom and they account for some 7% of the total cost of the British National Health Service [1]. Unfortunately, concern about the variable quality of general practice has persisted since the creation of the British National Health Service (e.g., [2-8]). Despite this concern, the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) maintained a low profile until general practitioners themselves took steps to seek a consistently high quality of patient care.
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Russell, I. et al. (1990). Performance Review in British Primary Health Care: An Epidemiological and Economic Evaluation. In: Bergerhoff, P., Lehmann, D., Novak, P. (eds) Primary Health Care. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83240-6_16
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