The role of the district family physician

Abstract

District clinical specialist teams were formed in 2012. One member of the team is the family physician. The role of the district family physician is discussed and the case made for focusing on the organisational health of the medical teams practising family medicine within the district as an effective way to improve the quality of medical care delivered in the district.

Keywords:

• district hospital
• family professional role
• interdisciplinary health team
• physicians
• primary healthcare

Conflicts of interest

I declare that I have no financial or personal relationship which may have inappropriately influenced me in writing this paper.