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When Stephen Campbell presented an outline of these findings at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the UK Society for Academic Primary Care in July 2009, he referred to a ‘step- change’ in patients’ perception of continuity. This paper fills in a lot of the details and elegantly shows the ability of a committed and well-funded long-term research programme, repeatedly reviewing a large enough sample of practitioners and pa...
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Campbell and colleagues conduct a rigorous assessment of changes in primary care patients’ experiences stemming from recent National Health Service reforms (1). Their results highlight an important tension between improving access to primary care and achieving continuity of primary care. The implementation of changes to the delivery of chronic illness care resulted in improved access to care scores for patients’ with chro...
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