Product Description: This new volume consists of structured case studies summarizing the state of primary care in 31 European countries. It complements the previous study, Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe, which provided an overview of the state of primary care across the continent, including aspects of governance, financing, workforce and details of service profiles...read more

Product Description: This volume analyzes how primary care is organized and delivered across European countries, looking at governance, financing and workforce aspects and the breadth of the service profiles. It describes wide national variations in terms of accessibility, continuity and coordination...read more

Product Description: What is the best way to structure primary care services? How can coordination between primary care and other parts of health care systems be improved? How should new technologies be integrated into primary care? There is considerable agreement among national policy makers across Europe that, in principle, primary care should be the linchpin of a well-designed health care system...read more