Thus, for example, the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, with its direct service provision of hospitals and community services, uses indirect contracts for general practitioners, community pharmacists, opticians, and most dentists.
Primary care professionals, such as general practitioners, community pediatricians, and child health nurses, are usually in the best position to implement screening procedures, but they have limited time and may not have trained in the identification of complex childhood disorders.
After an evolution from electronic data interchange to interoperability in electronic business and enterprise interoperability both the scientific and the practitioners' community are today discussing the notion of interoperability service utilities.
This advisory group must bring together the nation's best thinkers from community, academic and workplace sectors, the people who can integrate the collective experience and wisdom of practitioners, community and research.
The referral sources included general practitioners, community and specialty clinics and patients discharged from hospitals.
Participants included family physicians, specialist physicians, nurse practitioners, community workers, advocates, policy experts and researchers.
[ 13] In this study, the MITF was delivered to medical practitioners, community pharmacists and remote area clinic staff.
The referral sources included general practitioners, community and other specialty clinics as well as patients discharged from hospitals.
This may involve the delegation of tasks from physicians to other healthcare providers or non-professional health workers, including nurses, nurse practitioners, community HCWs, and health worker volunteers.
Potential participants could be referred for an intake interview by health care professionals such as general practitioners, community nurses and geriatricians.
