The Exceptional Potential of General Practice by Graham Watt

The Exceptional Potential of General Practice by Graham Watt

This innovative and timely book draws on pioneering precedents, basic principles, current examples and international experience to capture the narratives, examples and ideas that underlie and demonstrate the exceptional potential of general practice.

"The Exceptional Potential of General Practice is a book that I will certainly use for academic resources and to bolster the arguments I can make when once again the local Clinical Commissioning Group cuts funding to the sort of deprived area that I work inBut I suspect it’s Berger’s book that I will still give to my students to inspire them about general practice, even though it was written over 50 years ago."

Aneez Esmail- The Lancet

"The book itself serves to keep the torch of general practice burning bright and strong. Rather than provide another overarching academic critique of the value of general practice (community-based primary medical care), Watt provides us with a more illuminating constellation of contributions from GPs at the frontline, academics, and other health professionals who are seeking, through a variety of methods, to realise the exceptional potential that high-quality general practice can provide for those who it serves.
For those already engaged in similar work in whatever form, it provides a useful summary of the founding principles that underpin their efforts, some examples of work elsewhere, and a reminder that they are very much part of a whole."
Ben Jackson - British Journal of General Practice

Professor Watt is Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Glasgow, where he served as Head of Department of General Practice from 1994-2009.After hospital posts in Shetland, Leicester, Aberdeen and Nottingham, Professor Watt sought to combine training in epidemiology and general practice, moving to work with Dr Julian Tudor Hart at Glyncorrwg in South Wales, where they carried out a challenging series of community studies on the effect of dietary salt intake on blood pressure.Moving to the community paediatrics scheme in Edinburgh, Professor Watt completed vocational training at Townhead Health Centre in Glasgow. During the next decade, he established the Glasgow WHO MONICA Project Centre, gained accreditation in public health medicine and worked first as a research manager for health services research in the Scottish Chief Scientist Office and then as a senior lecturer in public health at Glasgow University.Since 1994, he has been Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at University of Glasgow – combining and requiring experience in medical education, clinical medicine, epidemiology, research management and public health advocacy.Professor Watt is Lead Coordinator of the Deep End Project, involving the 100 most deprived general practices in Scotland. He also served as Elected Chair, Heads of Departments Group, UK University Departments of General Practice and Primary Care (2001-2004), and has been the Fellowship Panel for Public Health, Primary Care, Epidemiology, Statistics and Psychiatry, UK Academy of Medical Sciences (2004-2006).

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ISBN 13	9781785231582
ISBN 10	1785231588
Title	The Exceptional Potential of General Practice
Author	Graham Watt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2018-12-13
Number of pages	275
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