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Family Practice Vol. 18, No. 5, 540-544
© Oxford University Press 2001

Health Services Research

Reflections from organization science on the development of primary health care research networks

Evelyn Fenton, Janet Harvey, Frances Griffithsa, Andrea Wilda and Jackie Sturt

Centre for Creativity, Strategy and Change, Warwick Business School
a Centre For Primary Health Care Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.

In the UK, policy changes in primary health care research and development have led to the establishment of primary care research networks. These organizations aim to increase research culture, capacity and evidence base in primary care. As publicly funded bodies, these networks need to be accountable. Organizational science has studied network organizations including why and how they develop and how they function most effectively. This paper draws on organizational science to reflect on why primary care research networks appear to be appropriate for primary care research and how their structures and processes can best enable the achievement of their aims.

Keywords. Network evaluation, networks, organizational science, primary care research networks.


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