Volume 35, Number 3, June 2008

Volume 35, No. 3, June 2008

NZFP June 2008

NZFP June 2008

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CONTENTS

Patient-centred professionalism

Being a professional general practitioner and using principles of professionalism to consider work force issues in general practice
Wayne Cunningham

Becoming 'patient-centred': A review
Hamish Wilson

Health information privacy: The patient perspective
Katharine Wallis

Editorial
Susan Dovey

Readers Write

Swamp Rat
Tim Gardner

Original Scientific Papers

Nursing initiatives in primary care: An approach to risk reduction for cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Margaret Horsburgh, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Julie Yallop

Implementation of a nursing initiative in primary care: A case report, cardiovascular disease risk reduction
Margaret Horsburgh, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Julie Yallop and Sally O'Connor

Do patients think their general practitioner cares?
Marjan Kljakovic

GP Workforce demographics in 2007: Gender, age, ethnicity, and work arrangements
Madhukar Mel Pande and Andrew Stenson

Improving Performance

Dignity Conversing Care and Dignity Therapy
Peter Huggard

What does an immunisation coordinator/facilitator do?
Barbara Warren

Continuing Medical Education

Assessment and management of miscarriage
Dawn Miller

Intermittent asthma in children
Philip Pattemore

Cochrane Corner: Over-the-counter medications are probably not effective for acute cough
Bruce Arroll

Journal Review Service

Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit