PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - W. G. Thompson
TI  - Contemporary English health care: what lessons can we learn from it?
DP  - 1996 Sep 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 581--584
VI  - 155
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/5/581.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/5/581.full
SO  - CMAJ1996 Sep 01; 155
AB  - Even though the United Kingdom has developed a reputation for lengthy patient queues, two-tier medicine and inadequate hospital facilities, its National Health Service (NHS) has some valuable attributes that are worth studying as Canada struggles to control its health care costs. Dr. Grant Thompson thinks the NHS focus on the GP as the entry point to health care and the resulting continuity of care, as well as a central medical record system, are successes that could be incorporated into Canada's medicare system.