Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M Wearne.
A panel set up to identify and support poorly performing GPs in one health authority relies on patients and health professionals to raise their concerns. Doctors from small and single-handed practices account for many of those investigated. The average length in practice of those investigated was 28 years. Panel members believe the system is working reasonably well but does not provide quick solutions to problems of poor performance.
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Profiling has become increasingly important to the purchasing and provision of todays' health care. Kate Cernik and Mandy Wearne examine the concept and its importance to health visitors and community nurses and ask what is involved in the profiling process and who should be doing it.
This fourth paper in our health promotion examines how primary health-care nurses' position at the interface between lay and professional care makes them well placed to influence public health-care policy within the new culture of the NHS.