General Practice in Primary Care: Responding to Patient Needs - is designed to help the community, policy makers and health care professionals better understand the power of a GP-led primary health care system. It outlines a number of important facts and also counters a number of myths that have been encouraged to bloom in the health debate.

It rejects the contention that we must accept lower standards of health care to make it affordable. It embraces reform and recognises the need for sustainable levels of health care funding, but puts patients' needs ahead of cost cutting.