Theo Schofield

The New Consultation: Developing doctor-patient communication

1. Introduction 2. The cycle of care 3. The context of the consultation 4. Understanding the patient 5. Understanding the doctor 6. Understanding the consultation 7. Learning and teaching about the consultation 8. Putting the tasks into practice 9. Teaching in educational settings 10. Describing and assessing consultations 11. Implementation of the approach to teaching and learning

Are patients' decision-making preferences being met?

Objective  To investigate the information and decision‐making expectations of general practice patients during real life consultations.

Observing decision-making in the general practice consultation: who makes which decisions?

Objective  To investigate opportunities for, and types of decision making in the general practice (primary care) consultation, and examine differences in skills of those doctors who are successful at meeting their patients’ preferences and those who are less successful.

Health promotion in primary care―does teamwork make a difference?

In this paper the rhetoric and the reasons for collaboration and teamwork in health promotion in primary care are contrasted with the reality of fragmented community services, medical domination of the agenda and services provided in inverse proportion to need. An example is given from the authors own practice of the way that a team could begin to assess the needs of the practice population and set its own priorities.