Primary Care Pharmacy June 2000 Vol 1 No 3 p88

Journal Club

Management

Koperski M. The state of primary care in the United States of America and lessons for primary care groups in the United Kingdom. Br J Gen Pr 2000;50:319-22.

The author suggests that the UK primary care groups could learn from US management and training techniques, case management, co-ordinating health care for individuals and the effects of poorly developed primary health care teams.

Davies HTO, Nutley SM. Developing learning organisations in the new NHS. BMJ 2000; 320:998-1001.

This paper looks at the principals of "learning organisations" and how these might be used in order to achieve multidisciplinary team learning in the health care environment and meet the needs of the individual and also the wider service development needs of the NHS.

What's in the medical press? - The rapidly changing situation in primary care means that it is often difficult to keep up to date with what is happening politically and clinically. This section of Primary Care Pharmacy will try to pick out a few articles that may be useful in day-to-day practice or have importance for the primary care role.