An independent inquiry into out of hours services of family doctors in Scotland has concluded that the introduction of GP cooperatives has been a positive development that is benefiting both patients and doctors.
The working group that drew up the report, however, has expressed some concern about the treatment of children and difficulties faced by some patients in arranging their own transport to travel to emergency centers. Improvements are being sought by the Scottish Office on these issues to improve the quality, fairness, and responsiveness of the system.
The inquiry was prompted by the deaths of two babies in Ayrshire after the local cooperative, Ayrshire Doctors on Call, provided telephone advice but declined requests for home visits. Parents of the dead children criticized the cooperative for failing to send out a doctor.
The parents supported a campaign that called for automatic home visits to be provided for certain groups of patients, such as chi
A. GP cooperatives were established with different medical units
B. transport arrangements and quality of services provided by different medical units are not of the same standards
C. patients request for fairness of transport arrangements
D. cooperatives should make improvement in the treatment of children
An independent inquiry into out of hours services of family doctors in Scotland has concluded that the introduction of GP cooperatives has been a positive development that is benefiting both patients and doctors.
The working group that drew up the report, however, has expressed some concern about the treatment of children and difficulties faced by some patients in arranging their own transport to travel to emergency centers. Improvements are being sought by the Scottish Office on these issues to improve the quality, fairness, and responsiveness of the system.
The inquiry was prompted by the deaths of two babies in Ayrshire after the local cooperative, Ayrshire Doctors on Call, provided telephone advice but declined requests for home visits. Parents of the dead children criticized the cooperative for failing to send out a doctor.
The parents supported a campaign that called for automatic home visits to be provided for certain groups of patients, such as chi
A. The introduction of GP cooperatives has been a negative development.
B. GP Cooperatives in Scotland benefit patients and doctors.
C. GP cooperatives have some disadvantages which would do harm to patients.
D. GP cooperatives are well-developed in Scotland.
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