Primary care and ophthalmology in the United Kingdom.

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The National Health Service is now primary care led. There are different definitions for primary care and in this review they are analysed and related to ophthalmology to produce a working definition for ophthalmic primary care, summarised as the provision of first contact care for all ophthalmic conditions and follow up, preventive, and rehabilitative care of selected ophthalmic conditions, in a variety of settings, by a diverse workforce. The attributes of primary care are first contact, accessibility, continuity, longitudinality, comprehensiveness, coordination, equity, and accountability. The delivery of ophthalmic primary care should be governed by these and evaluated accordingly. The clinical content of primary care consists of the first presentation of disease, the management of minor illness and trauma, the recurrence of disease, the follow up and support of some chronic conditions, and the delivery of preventive health care. Planning for ophthalmic primary care needs to take service requirements of these categories of disease into account. Primary care research is abundant in ophthalmology but needs to be more structured and targeted. Ophthalmic primary care itself is urgently in need of recognition and formal adoption by the profession.

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Review

Journal: The British journal of ophthalmology

VOLUME: 87

Page Numbers: 493-9

Journal Abbreviation: Br J Ophthalmol

ISSN: 0007-1161

DAY: 28

MONTH: Apr

YEAR: 2003

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Number of References: 115

LANGUAGE: eng

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KEYWORDS: State Medicine

MESH TERMS: organization & administration

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AFFILIATION: Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, London EC1V 2PD, UK.

Country: England

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MEDLINETA: Br J Ophthalmol

REFSOURCE: Br J Ophthalmol. 2003 Apr;87(4):380-1

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