Patients and Their Doctors, 1964; Old People

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was: to collect data describing the main features of general practice - family, personal, domiciliary and front-line care; to obtain information about the role of the general practitioner as seen by both patients and doctors. There are ten datasets making up this study: <i>Main Patients</i> SN:394 <i>General Practitioners</i> SN:704 <i>Depression</i> SN:705 <i>G.P. Consultation</i> SN:706 <i>Out-Patients</i> SN:707 <i>Children</i> SN:708 <i>Mothers</i> SN:709 <i>Old People</i> SN:710 <i>Failure Schedules</i> SN:835 <i>No National Health Service Docotr</i> SN:836Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Details of respondent's particular medical problem, consultations made and type of help received, problems of mobility, whether help received from doctors or other social workers, frequency of visits from GP, relative seen most often, frequency of visits from relatives. Method (and ease) of contacting doctor