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Primary care. Ringing the changes.

Alexis Nolan
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A 2000 DoH review called for out-of-hours services to be straightforward for users to access, and for service planning to involve multi-disciplinary co-operation from health professionals. Out-of-hours provision has evolved since then, but missed targets, insufficient staff numbers and inequalities between different providers continue to hamper progress.

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After-Hours CareBenchmarkingFamily PracticeHealth Services AccessibilityHumansOrganizational InnovationPrimary Health CareQuality of Health CareState MedicineTime FactorsTriageUnited KingdomJournal Article

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Alexis Nolan. 2005-06-09. Primary care. Ringing the changes.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15981828/

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