Participants at the 2011 GP shared information on their projects and discussed a global plan of action to enhance multisectoral collaboration on DRR for health to protect lives and livelihoods (WHO 2011) and provided a launchpad for the discussions regarding the inclusion of DRR in the post-2015 development goals (WHO 2013).
Routinely collected data provided limited information on GP shared care arrangements (MC 14% vs. SC 34%) with interview data suggesting the proportion of MC women receiving shared care was higher.
Women allocated to the control group can choose from the standard hospital options for care which include midwives clinic antenatally; GP shared care antenatally; followed by general public hospital care in labour and in the postnatal ward.
Within public sector facilities, several models of care including general practitioner (GP) shared care, team midwifery care, caseload (or group practice) midwifery care, conventional public care, and birth centre care may be available at a birth facility.
We did not include locums and vocational trainees in the variable "number of GPs sharing premises", even though they may have influenced the total practice resources and the number of staff needed.
In East Germany, a large part of healthcare was provided by polikliniken (polyclinics): state-funded outpatients centres in which GPs shared a roof with specialists.
In Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and England, GPs share their offices with other GPs.
General practitioners (GPs) share case stories in small-group learning.
GPs shared examples of the kind of challenges they were facing in managing these patients.
In another three practices, two GPs shared the responsibility for the same patients.
