Quality in Primary Care Open Access

Editorial

Creating a quality healthcare system for the 21st century

• A Niroshan Siriwardena

Guest Editorial

Improving patient safety in primary care: learning from the secondary sector

• Steve Gillam

Guest Editorial

Nursing as grease in the primary care innovation machinery

• Peter P Groenewegen

Research Paper

Cardiovascular-risk patients’ experienced benefits and unfulfilled expectations from preventive consultations: a qualitative study

• Dea Kehler, Bo Christensen, Torsten Lauritzen, Morten Bondo Christensen, Adrian Edwards, Mette Bech Ris?r

Research Paper

Copying hospital discharge summaries to practice pharmacists: does this help implement treatment plans?

• Steve Gray, Mike Urwin, Sheila Woolfrey, Barbara Harrington, James Cox

Research Paper

The involvement of clinicians in medical education research

• Mohsen Tavakol, Roger Murphy, Mohammad Rahemei-Madeseh, Sima Torabi

Quality Improvement Report

An audit of the first year of screening for depression in patients with diabetes and ischaemic heart disease under the Quality and Outcomes Framework

• Kevork Hopayian, Deepak N Subramanian

Quality Improvement Report

Primary care in the management of common orthopaedic problems

• Ioanna Vasileiou, Athanasios Giannopoulos, Chris Klonaris, Kostas Vlasis, George Marinos, Othon Michail, Athanasios Katsargyris, Siasos Gerasimos, Gialafos Elias, John Griniatsos, Provlengios Stefanos

International Exchange

Chronic heart failure: the role of primary care – position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care

• Toni Dedeu, Josep Vilaseca, Pim de Graaf, Richard Hobbs, Christiane Muth, Jan Martensson, Miguel Lopez-Alcazar, Martin Scherer

International Exchange

Prevention and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in primary care: position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care

• Hakan Yaman, Tjard Schermer, Chris van Weel, Francoise Barten, Johan Buffels, Niels Chavannes, Przemyslaw Kardas, Anders ?strem, Antonius Schneider

Patient Perspective

Sixty years of the NHS: general practice and the patient 1948-2008

• Patricia Wilkie