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Exploring the relationship between general practice characteristics and attendance at Walk-in Centres, Minor Injuries Units and Emergency Departments in England 2009/10-2012/2013: A longitudinal study (2017)
Journal Article
Morris, R. W., Tammes, P., Brangan, E., Checkland, K., England, H., Huntley, A., …Purdy, S. (2017). Exploring the relationship between general practice characteristics and attendance at Walk-in Centres, Minor Injuries Units and Emergency Departments in England 2009/10-2012/2013: A longitudinal study. BMC Health Services Research, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2483-x

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: The UK National Health Service Emergency Departments (ED) have recently faced increasing attendance rates. This study investigated associations of general practice and practice population characteristics with emergen... Read More about Exploring the relationship between general practice characteristics and attendance at Walk-in Centres, Minor Injuries Units and Emergency Departments in England 2009/10-2012/2013: A longitudinal study.

Discourses of joint commissioning (2017)
Journal Article
Cameron, A., Brangan, E., Gabbay, J., Klein, J. H., Pope, C., & Wye, L. (2018). Discourses of joint commissioning. Health and Social Care in the Community, 26(1), 65-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12462

Increasing attention has focused on the role of joint commissioning in health and social care policy and practice in England. This paper provides an empirical examination of the three discourses of joint commissioning developed from an interpretative... Read More about Discourses of joint commissioning.

Why do patients seek primary medical care in emergency departments? An ethnographic exploration of access to general practice (2017)
Journal Article
MacKichan, F., Brangan, E., Wye, L., Checkland, K., Lasserson, D., Huntley, A., …Purdy, S. (2017). Why do patients seek primary medical care in emergency departments? An ethnographic exploration of access to general practice. BMJ Open, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013816

Objectives: To describe how processes of primary care access influence decisions to seek help at the emergency department (ED).Design: Ethnographic case study combining non-participant observation, informal and formal interviewing.Setting: Six genera... Read More about Why do patients seek primary medical care in emergency departments? An ethnographic exploration of access to general practice.