Primary care. Ringing the changes.
A 2000 DoH review called for out-of-hours services to be straightforward for users to access, and for service planning to involve multi-disciplinary co-operation from health professionals. Out-of-hours provision has evolved since then, but missed targets, insufficient staff numbers and inequalities between different providers continue to hamper progress.
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D039602:After-Hours Care / Q000592:standards*; D019985:Benchmarking; D005194:Family Practice / Q000592:standards*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards; D013997:Time Factors; D014218:Triage / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom