Organisations for which patients reported an affiliation were classified according to their official denomination type (solo provider, private group practice, family medicine group, local community health centre, emergency department or specialised source of care).
Solo providers who hang out virtual shingles are a growing phenomenon.
Most are small and solo providers, whose viability is being squeezed by government cuts, which could lead to a devastating loss of expertise and experience.
"The majority are small and solo providers [and] analysis of the current accounts of providers would tend to suggest that the levels of profits remain very low - in fact the return on investment is becoming a concern," he says.
Riviera Partners Revolutionaryy search firm combining the best assets of large, boutique and solo providers to deliver search work for venture-backed technology companies.
Our study did not find a difference with regards to the type of organisation reported as usual source of care, with the exception of solo providers.
Solo providers, private group practice, family medicine groups and local community health centres did not statistically differ from each other with regards to the proportion of patients reporting unmet needs.
However, retaining midwives in the village remains an enormous challenge, and failure to do so will lead to a lower coverage of current health services than has currently been achieved, particularly as the village midwife is usually a solo health care provider.
That show was a massive influence on me and this year he finally made a great solo album, Provider.
Because public service doctors and midwives (both PNS and contract) have the right to private practice an increase in their number in a district is likely to result in an increase in the number of private part-time solo-provider facilities through which the public servant doctors and midwives offer services after hours.
