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World Book of Family Medicine – European Edition 2015 general practitioners to the general practice, from an individual to an institutional level. This is in line with the motor car replacing the horse and carriage as the practitioner’s transportation, or the telephone with the knock on the doctor’s door to invoke care in the middle of the night. Rather than redoing discussions of old, it might have been more appropriate to explore the innovation of practice organisation: how GPs can shape and lead the development of their practice to be able to respond to the challenges in nature and volume their practice environment poses. General practice or primary health care This orientation is the more important in the current development in which mono-disciplinary general practice is replaced by an integrated multi-disciplinary primary health care structure. Interconnectedness within primary health care, with hospitals, public health and with other sectors in society is required to fulfil the contemporary mission of promoting and securing health of individuals and populations [7]. This is a generic principle that has to be translated to the conditions on the ground in which GP and practice work and the numbers to consider have to be related to the multi-disciplinary team. Experience and performance A returning argument in the opinions about practice size has been the building and maintaining of clinical experience. It goes without saying that hands-on exposure to patients and their health problems are important in developing and shaping clinical reasoning. But exposure in itself does little to generate skills. For this, a process of critical reflection is required, and it is in the quality, not the quantity of these reflections that GPs’ professionalisation comes about. This is the more decisive, as the most important clinical decisions may concern the most infrequent health problems. For this, no practice size will ever cater, and exposure alone can never secure the adequacy of clinical decisions. This presents in my view the most compelling reason to get away from the ‘ideal’ practice size, recognise the vast importance of building skills from clinical exposure and turn to more sophisticated methods to do so. Attributing critical decisions to experience or intuition [8] is mystifying, unhelpful and potentially dangerous. It is exactly in this line of thinking that discussions on practice size have focused. The engagement of experienced GPs in the workshop in 2005 might have made better use of their intellectual skills, by getting to the heart of decision-making in uncertain situations and with few available data – better than fixating on a number for the size of their practice. Conclusions Looking back objectively, the workshop in 2005 might have been better directed at the leadership role of GPs – in transforming the context of their practice setting from single-handed, mono-disciplinary to integrated multidisciplinary teams; in exploring the nature of functional differences between practices; and in focusing on the innermind processes of how their decisions under real life circumstances come about – rather than fixating on an ideal number criterion. But GPs work with and in time to solve problems, and this makes 2015 the first opportunity to address these issues after all. Take Home Messages Single-handed general practice is a feature of the profession’s past, as a consequence of its ever more prominent role in health care. Size and disciplinary composition have to be determined by the needs of the practice community. It is not possible to build expertise and knowledge simply on experience from exposure to primary care health problems. As primary care has to direct and adopt the local needs and conditions, practice variation can be an indicator of quality as much as lack of quality. Original abstract http://www.woncaeurope.org/content/777-wo-optimal-practice-size-what-preserve-single-handed-care References World Health Organization Europe, European health for all Database, Copenhagen: WHO-regional Office for Europe, 2002. 220
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