Respondents are not as responsive in the case of travel time to pharmacists and public doctors.
TRCL was notified of the technical problems, but the fixes were not necessarily timely; further, when the program did not generate adequate revenue TRCL stopped being responsive to the village doctors.
The effect on productivity of offering salary to the GPs who prefer salary depends on the extent to which these doctors are responsive to the financial incentives in the current remuneration scheme, i.e. the magnitude of the incentive effect for this particular group of doctors.
Parents mirrored their child's comments about the consistency of seeing the same doctor, attending appointments responsive to their needs.
(GP_27, started in the 1990s) These GPs see the role of the doctor as being responsive to the needs of the patient in their community.
But as Cutler observes, doctors can be "horribly" responsive to incentives -- incentives that would argue against treating a subset of the chronically ill who have poor histories of good "measurable outcomes".
In a setting such as the United Kingdom where several measures of quality of care were already on the path of continuous improvement, it seems that doctors may be less responsive to performance based monetary incentives to improve the care of hypertension than most policy makers believe.
Reports of a positive interaction with GPs repeatedly emphasise a woman's relief (and often surprise) to find that their doctor listened and was responsive to their complaint, that they had read the notes and were informed about the particular presentation of the woman and RUTIs in general.
It could, if done properly, lead to an NHS that is more responsive to the needs of the local community, while empowering doctors to get more involved in shaping the services they deliver.
Despite language concordance between the family doctor and participants, there was discussion across the focus groups on how the system was not responsive to their needs because of limited consultation time with the family doctor.
