Lewsey D M, Smith S R
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK.
J Fam Pract. 1996 Apr;42(4):409-16.
The preservation of small, independent family practices within a changed health care delivery environment is a goal worth pursuing. Properly organized, such practices would maintain the special fiduciary relationship between physicians and patients. Fundholding practices, which are a growing organizational form of general practice in the United Kingdom, are described as a model that could serve as the basis for an American alternative to corporate medicine.
