Community and participation for general practice: Perceptions of general practitioners and community nurses

Ian Brown

Social Science & Medicine, 1994, vol. 39, issue 3, 335-344

Abstract: A central theme of health policy has concerned the public's participation in primary health care services, both as individual consumers and collectively as communities. In the U.K. primary care increasingly centres on general practice. This paper reports an exploratory study undertaken with practice teams in inner city Sheffield about community participation. The study design was influenced by a grounded theory approach to data collection and analysis. The main data collected was from interviews of 23 general practitioners, 20 practice nurses, 11 health visitors and 7 district nurses. Concepts of community and participation were explored by interview with these primary care workers. Typologies of community and participation for general practice are presented in the findings, along with associated strategic positions and political tensions. The discussion highlights a number of tensions and issues concerning community participation when primary care is organized around general practice.

Keywords: community; participation; general; practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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