Survival of family medicine in a corporate health care environment: lessons from the United Kingdom
Lewsey, D.M.; Smith, S.R.
Journal of Family Practice 42(4): 409-416
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0094-3509 PMID: 8627211 Document Number: 457392
The preservation of small, independent family practices within a changed health care delivery environment is a goal worth pursuing. Properly organized, such practices would maintain the special fiduciary relationship between physicians and patients. Fundholding practices, which are a growing organizational form of general practice in the United Kingdom, are described as a model that could serve as the basis for an American alternative to corporate medicine.