title: Primary care. Otherwise engaged.
abstract: Professional executive committees were devised to be the clinicians' voice in primary care trusts, but staff have complained of corporate sell-out. Policies like practice-based commissioning are seen as a catalyst to reform the committees. New-style PECs are abandoning some more general work to focus on modernisation.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gould
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D018166:Health Care Reform; D007857:Leadership; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom