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Community Health Care Nursing: Its Importance in General Practice Settings

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Achieving Quality in Community Health Care Nursing

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In many ways, general practitioners (GPs) have been able to remain the most independent practitioners within the NHS since its inception in 1948, when Aneuran Bevan negotiated their co-operation by allowing them to remain as small businesses contracted for specific service provision. Because of this independent status, GPs have managed to remain detached from the reorganisations of the 1970s and early 1980s and were largely untouched by the managerial culture being fostered in the rest of the health service during this time. Ironically, it is through being awarded extended opportunities for enhanced power, control and prestige in the health service that they have been drawn into a pivotal role in the ‘new’ NHS of the 1990s and hence have become more accountable than ever before.

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  1. Kate Cernik
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  1. Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

    Carolyn Mason RGN, RHV, RNT, BA, PhD (Lecturer in Nursing) (Lecturer in Nursing)

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Cernik, K. (1997). Community Health Care Nursing: Its Importance in General Practice Settings. In: Mason, C. (eds) Achieving Quality in Community Health Care Nursing. Community Health Care Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13904-0_10

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