Publications by authors named "Graham Cm Watt"
Background: Practice nurses have a key role within UK general practice, especially since the 2004 GMS contract. This study aimed to describe that role, identify how professionally supported they felt and their career intentions. An additional aim was to explore whether they felt isolated and identify contributory factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The new GMS contract has led to practice nurses playing an important role in the delivery of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
Aim: This study investigated how practice nurses perceive the changes in their work since the contract's inception.
Design Of Study: A qualitative approach, sampling practice nurses from practices in areas of high and low deprivation, with a range of QOF scores.
Background: The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) of the new General Medical Services contract, for the first time, incentivises certain areas of general practice workload over others. The ability of practices to deliver high quality care may be related to the size of the practice itself.
Aim: To explore the relationship between practice size and points attained in the QOF.
Background: Empathy is a key aspect of the clinical encounter but there is a lack of patient-assessed measures suitable for general clinical settings.
Objectives: Our aim was to develop a consultation process measure based on a broad definition of empathy, which is meaningful to patients irrespective of their socio-economic background.
Methods: Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to develop and validate the new measure, which we have called the consultation and relational empathy (CARE) measure.