Abstract
Data from 23 Sheffield practices showed general practitioner in-surgery consultation rates running at an average of 3395 per 1000 patients in 1996-1997. This is 30% above the equivalent contact rate found in the Fourth National Morbidity Survey of England and Wales in 1991-1992.
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