title: Providing a platform for patients.
abstract: With the consumer, particularly of public services, becoming ever more vociferous the growth of patient participation in general practice was inevitable. Author reports on how patient groups are developing their roles at the primary care level and on one whose influence reached the hospital sphere.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Burningham
mesh_terms: D003255:Consumer Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom