We studied Primary Care based rheumatology clinics in Norfolk because of the unique model of specialist nurse practitioners working in Secondary Care and general practice.
This study demonstrates that a model of specialist nephrology NP led clinics with primary care clinicians is feasible and may improve risk factors for progression of CKD and cardiovascular death.
The described model (d) of specialists referring follow-up to melanoma unit GPs is a relatively new approach, which expands the capacity of a melanoma unit to provide follow-up by GPs who have greater access to specialist support than is available to most community GPs.
The specialist housing currently on offer doesn't reflect the choices that most older people make, so we need new models of specialist housing: flexible tenures in retirement housing and new public and private sector services.
General Practitioners with a Special Interest (GPwSIs), a key component of the UK National Health Service modernisation agenda [ 6], challenge traditional models of specialist care.
Salisbury 1999: Salisbury C, Bosanquet N, Wilkinson EK, Franks PJ, Kite S, Lorentzon M, et al. The impact of different models of specialist palliative care on patients' quality of life: a systematic literature review.
The System Dynamics simulation model of medical specialists in Spain from 2008 to 2025 starts with the design of the theoretical model and its causal relations, the causal loop, to represent the most relevant aspects and determinants of the system as it operates.
Postal communication is a common approach for delivery of risk assessments and, more generally, the model of using specialist packages for behaviour change rather than retaining this activity within generalist or specialist practitioner consultations is now widely used in the United Kingdom for smoking 23 and increasingly for weight loss.
Based on the classical model of innovation, specialist prescribing could serve as a catalyst for GPs to try out the new drugs themselves.
