Health Centres A Report and Discussion

This is a report (originally issued in February 1971) of the first phase of work, carried out at the Centre for Research in the Social Sciences of the University of Kent, into health centres and related aspects of primary medical care organisation. It presents the background in terms of

the state of knowledge about health centres for the later studies which were being developed by the group at the University of Kent and became part of the programme of the Health Services Research Unit. Since final reports on these studies are now being completed it seemed useful to

reissue the original (1971) report. The issues discussed remain relevant to policy decisions about health centres.