The vital role of the cottage-community hospital.

  • 1 August 1978
    • journal article
    • Vol. 28  (193) , 485-91
Abstract
The history of general-practitioner hospitals is reviewed and a case made for their retention and extension. Among the advantages they provide are: a local service for patients, less expensive hospital care than is possible in a district general hospital, less travelling expenses for patients, valuable postgraduate education for doctors, and improvement of general-practitioner morale.