title: The vital role of the cottage-community hospital.
abstract: The history of general-practitioner hospitals is reviewed and a case made for their retention and extension. Among the advantages they provide are: a local service for patients, less expensive hospital care than is possible in a district general hospital, less travelling expenses for patients, valuable postgraduate education for doctors, and improvement of general-practitioner morale.
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom