NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REORGANISATION Residential Seminar for General Practitioners and Consultants

This Handbook has been compiled with the object of assembling in one place many of the more important recent official documents about reorganisation which are particularly relevant to consultants and general

practitioners wishing to understand the new structure and to contribute to the planning and management of the new services. The Handbook is therefore concerned essentially with supplying information, not with criticism or evaluation. The extracts in the Handbook cover the major

areas of concern to the Seminar, starting with an outline of the essential features of the new NHS and passing on to issues of management, community medicine, district organisation, and collaboration with local government. Seminar members are expected to be familiar with the main

contents of the Handbook, and it is hoped that the Handbook will continue to be a useful reference for some time to come.