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Family Practice 2004 21(6):597-598; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh603
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Family Practice Vol. 21, No. 6 © Oxford University Press 2004, all rights reserved.

Editorial

The changing face of primary care: the second Dutch national survey

Roger Jonesa, Francois Schellevisb and Gert Westertc

a Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, London, UK, b NIVEL, Utrecht and c RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Correspondence to Professor Roger Jones, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, GKT School of Medicine, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, UK; Email: roger.jones@kcl.ac.uk

Jones R, Schellevis F and Westert G. The changing face of primary care: the second Dutch national survey. Family Practice 2004; 21: 597–598.

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In 1987, a national survey of general practice in The Netherlands was undertaken, and this has now been followed by the second survey, completed in 2001, involving 194 GPs in 104 practices, with 400 000 patients, and including 1.5 million doctor–patient contacts, 2.1 million prescriptions and generating an extraordinary database of 2784 video-taped consultations.1 The survey was undertaken and analysed along six themes: the health of the population; the utilization of care; inequalities in health; quality of care; communication in general practice; and organization and workload. The results were presented and discussed at a recent conference ‘Dutch general practice on stage’ preceding the European WONCA meeting in Amsterdam in early June. The results are fascinating, and contain strong messages for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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