Family practitioners: justice for GPs and patients.
The Family Practitioner Committee has a broad ombudsman function, writes Judy Allsop, a former medical service committee lay member and senior lecturer in social policy, Polytechnic of the South Bank. She discusses the way PFCs deal with complaints against GPs and highlights some of the problems faced by complainants and the medical service committees.
D003284:Contract Services; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010821:Physicians, Family; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom