Quality in Primary Care Open Access

Guest Editorial

Creating and sustaining a learning organisation in the NHS

• Ruth Chambers

Research Paper

Developing change proposals to improve themanagement of coronary heart disease in primary care

• Stephen Rogers

Research Paper

Specialist diabetes clinics in primary care: the views of GPs about the impact on quality of care

• Penny Rhodes

Research Paper

Modernising beyond the NHS:prison healthcare can benefit too

• Helen Thornton-Jones

Research Paper

R&D advice surgeries: do staff value them?

• Chris Leach

Research Paper

Developing an audit instrument for breaking bad news

• M Barnett

Clinical Governance in Action

Primary eyecare in the community:GP ophthalmic referrals to optometrists

• David P Austen

Clinical Governance in Action

A retrospective audit on the quality of periapical and bitewing radiographs taken in a primary care setting

• Rob Emanuel

Clinical Governance in Action

Patients with suspectedmyocardial infarction presenting to accident and emergency: an audit of clinical descriptions given by ambulance crews

• Andrew Smallwood

Essential Quality Updates

What accounts for around 1 in 20 medical admissions and readmission rates of 50% over three months in severe cases?

• Phil Ranson

Patient Perspective

Experiencing care of the elderly in the community: a learning curve for carers

• Patricia Wilkie

Knowledge Share

Web alert: primary care management

• Richard Beard

International Exchange

Monitoring of communicable diseases screening and hepatitis B vaccination of prison inmates: amodel fromAustralia

• N Awofeso

Quality Improvement Report

Lithium monitoring for patients with learning disability: the role of the general practitioner

• Helen Sharrard

Review Article

Patient-Centred Medicine: transforming the clinical method

• Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, WWayneWeston, Ian RMcWhinney, Carol LMcWilliamand Thomas R Freeman