In the high deprivation groupings, practices were selected from those in the lower quartile of the combined deprivation scores of practices in the three health board regions out-with Greater Glasgow, and those in the lower quartile of deprivation scores within Greater Glasgow.
Selecting FAs by using age groups with a small band (for instance ten-year groupings) is difficult, especially in smaller populations like those of a (group) practice because of the resulting low number of patients in each cell.
These include the creation of federations or other forms of non-commercial or commercial groupings of practices that are able to share innovations and improve efficiency [ 30, 31].
Groupings of practices into three categories (tertiles): 1-deprived 2-intermediate and 3-affluent, based on the national rank of the geographic area in which the practice is located (i.e. practices in group 1 represent 33.3% of neighborhoods with lowest socio-economic status nationally).
Whilst there are doubtless many alternative ways of categorising the papers by theme, and any such categorisation overlooks areas of overlap and linkage, we will summarise the papers in three broad groupings: the practices of assuring quality in healthcare; giving 'space to the story'; and addressing moral complexity in the clinic, the classroom and the academy.
Contextualised detail about health-sector responses is contained in plans at the level of administrative decentralisation where decisions are made about patient-service groupings including general practice.
i) Patient case-based discussion: depending on progress and on availability within the practices, we aim to facilitate further group-based practice meetings to focus on patient care, using a patient as an example to show the potential benefits of the sub-grouping for targeted treatment approach in practice.
LHCCs were groupings of general practices assembled on a geographic basis for service provision and administrative purposes.
If you find yourself not able to keep consistent groupings at this range, practice shooting very slowly and being patient until your sights move over your target.
The novelist Nicola White, who in her former career as a curator commissioned Douglas Gordon's breakthrough artwork 24 Hour Psycho (1993), cites "the collective, egalitarian feel of Glasgow, the multitude of practices and groupings, the respect for hard work, the 'now'now
