The chief scientist reports... Consultant out-patient services: provision at health centres in Scotland
Milne, R.G.; Torsney, B.; Watson, J.
Health Bulletin 50(6): 457-467
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0374-8014 PMID: 1483872 Document Number: 401212
Hospital based consultant (out-patient) services are most likely to be found in the community at health centres. By 1991 some 45% of the Scottish population had access to services provided at these health centres. The clinical specialties most commonly provided were psychiatry, obstetrics, paediatrics and gynaecology, and they accounted for some 10% or more of all attendances. Regular consultant visits in these and other specialties were more common at the larger health centres and at those further distant from alternative provision.