scholarly journals Screening of the mental state of the over-75s in the community: what are GPs doing?

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Opportunistic Screening ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Primary Health Care Team ◽  
List Size ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Functional Problems

The new general practitioners' contract requires the primary health care team to perform a yearly assessment of their patients of 75 and over. This includes an assessment of the ‘mental condition’. In a list size of 2,000, typically 130 fall within this age group. Screening does not have to be carried out by the doctor and as 90% are already seen at least once a year, there is scope for opportunistic screening. Nonetheless, screening increases the general practitioner's workload and while it improves the morale of elderly people, it may have little impact on medical and functional problems.

scholarly journals A psychiatric liaison service for a social services office

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 481-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Grant ◽  
Anne Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Primary Health Care Team ◽  
Health Care Settings ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Settings

Although there has been considerable interest into the amount of liaison work that general psychiatrists do with general practitioners in primary health care settings, and into the role that social workers can play in liaising with the primary health care team, less is known about the extent to which general psychiatrists have established liaison links with particular social services offices, what form the liaison takes and whether the liaison has worked satisfactorily.

Population and primary health-care team characteristics explain the quality of the service

Health Policy ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 86 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 335-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Gené-Badia ◽  
Carlos Ascaso ◽  
Georgia Escaramis-Babiano ◽  
Arantxa Catalán-Ramos ◽  
Enriqueta Pujol-Ribera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Primary Health Care Team ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Team Characteristics
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