Primary Care in the UK

STEPHEN PECKHAM is Reader in Health Policy at Oxford Brookes University. He is co-author of The Management of Public Involvement in Health Care Purchasing (1998). MARK EXWORTHY is a Research Fellow in the International Centre for Health and Society at University College London. He is co-editor (with Susan Halford) of Professionals and the New Managerialism in the Public Sector (1998).

Preface.- PART ONE Primary Care in the UK: The Context.- Policy Perspectives on Primary Care.- Primary Care: Definitions and Applications in UK Policy.- The Development of Primary Care Policy in the UK.- The Organisation of Primary Care in the UK.- PART TWO Primary Care in Action.- Primary Care Commissioning.- Inter-Professional Working in Primary Care.- Health and Social Care Partnership at the Primary Care Level.- Patients, the Public and Primary Care.- Primary Care and Public Health.- PART THREE Conclusions: Directions for Primary Care.