And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role. |
Managed clinical networks are in keeping with the increasingly important role primary care has in acute health care. |
Before then there was no acknowledgement in government of the need to address the low research capacity of primary care. |
It said primary care trusts must pay much more attention to men's health, particularly by making local services more easily accessible to them. |
This model retains the expertise and quality assurance of the laboratory process while decentralising at minimal cost to primary care. |
Costs were figured from a health service perspective by abstracting data from primary care case records. |