Sure start in England.

摘要

The UK's system of general practice, based on the long-term registered population, is one of the most popular, successful, and efficient ways of delivering primary health care. It allows for continuity of care, a multidis-ciplinary approach, and a systematic integration of individual and family acute health care with risk management, preventive interventions, and care of long-term disorders. How tragic that the potential of this horizontal approach, so often shown to be successful, has been ignored by the vertical approach in relation to health care embodied in children's centres and the Sure Start programme.