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Such referral
systems should be introduced and sustained by interprofessional consensus, contractual
agreements and financial incentives. Every person should know the name of his or her primary care provider. Individual patients should be actively encouraged to nominate one doctor as their principal primary medical care provider. Individual family doctor should be actively encouraged to maintain a register of all the individuals and families for whom they take responsibility as principal primary care providers. Colleges, academies, or other independent self-regulating professional associations of family doctors should be established in ALL cities of Pakistan or their members. Family doctors should devise standards for all aspects of family practice based where possible on published research evidence including both quantitative and qualitative aspects. Formal recognition of Family Medicine as a special discipline in medicine - already accepted in many countries. |