Citizens' participation in primary healthcare planning: Innovative citizenship practice in empirical perspective

摘要: The British National Health Service has been the focus of sustained political rhetoric in favour greater public and patient involvement decision making. creation Primary Care Groups--organizations based on local groups general practitioners--has thus accompanied by a requirement that they involve users public. This article reports study Groups (n = 167) to address two questions. First, how have responded this requirement? Second, can user activities be related broader changes with regard roles expectations citizens? indicated significant activity around but also tendency among informants rationalize these terms professional commitment quality responsiveness (rather than relation expressed preferences citizens). In second question results provide some, contestable, evidence realignments v...