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Psychiatric referral rates and the influence of on-site mental health workers in general practiceMark Ashworth
Guy's, King's and St Thomas's Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King's College London
Br J Gen Pract 52:39-41. 2002....
Which general practices have higher list inflation? An exploratory studyMark Ashworth
STaRNet, GKT Department of General Practice, Kings College London, UK
Fam Pract 22:529-31. 2005..GP income under the 2004 new contract will be based on registered patient populations but a national 'de-ghosting' exercise will ensue, aiming to eliminate list inflation...- Quality improvement in UK primary care: the role of financial incentivesMark Ashworth
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King's College London School of Medicine at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
J Ambul Care Manage 31:220-5. 2008 - Variations in antibiotic prescribing and consultation rates for acute respiratory infection in UK general practices 1995-2000Mark Ashworth
STaRNet lead general practitioner and honorary senior lecturer, King s College London
Br J Gen Pract 55:603-8. 2005..Antibiotic prescribing by GPs in the UK has declined since 1995... - The relationship between income and performance indicators in general practice: a cross-sectional studyM Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice, Kings College London
Health Serv Manage Res 18:258-64. 2005..To explore the relationship between the income of general practitioners (GPs) and the performance characteristics of their practices... - Age-related changes in consultations and antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections, 1995-2000. Data from the UK General Practice Research DatabaseM Ashworth
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King s College London School of Medicine at Guy s, King s College and St Thomas Hospitals, London, UK
J Clin Pharm Ther 31:461-7. 2006..The occurrence of different respiratory infections varies widely at different ages but we do not know whether prescribing has reduced equally in all age groups... - Why has antibiotic prescribing for respiratory illness declined in primary care? A longitudinal study using the General Practice Research DatabaseMark Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice, King s College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 26:268-74. 2004..We aimed to investigate changes in consultation rates and the proportion of consultations with antibiotics prescribed for different types of respiratory tract infections... - Partnership effects in general practice: identification of clustering using intra-class correlation coefficientsMark Ashworth
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Guy s, King s and St Thomas School of Medicine, King s College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP
Br J Gen Pract 53:863-5. 2003..The ICC statistic is a useful tool for exploring homogeneity and heterogeneity within general practice partnerships... - The development of prescribing incentive schemes in primary care: a longitudinal surveyMark Ashworth
Guy s King s and St Thomas Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King s College London, 5, Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP
Br J Gen Pract 53:468-70. 2003..Quality improvements may be hampered in those PCOs offering financial rewards to underspent general practices that fail to achieve any prescribing quality targets... - Perceptions of psychological content in the GP consultation--the role of practice, personal and prescribing attributesMark Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King s College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, UK
Fam Pract 20:373-5. 2003..The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between the characteristics of general practices and the perceptions of the psychological content of consultations by GPs in those practices... 
The relationship between general practice characteristics and quality of care: a national survey of quality indicators used in the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework, 2004-5Mark Ashworth
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King s College London School of Medicine at Guy s, King s College and St Thomas Hospitals, London, UK
BMC Fam Pract 7:68. 2006..We aimed to determine the relationship between the quality of primary care, as judged by the total QOF score, social deprivation and practice characteristics...- Re: GPs' views on computerized drug interaction alertsM Ashworth
STaRNet Lead General Practitioner, GKT Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King's College London, London, UK
J Clin Pharm Ther 27:311-2. 2002 - The effects on GP prescribing of joining a commissioning groupM Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Kings College London, London, UK
J Clin Pharm Ther 27:221-8. 2002..The opportunity to study potential prescribing change arose with the formation of a limited number of Primary Care Commissioning Groups (PCCGs), a precursor of Primary Care Groups (PCGs) and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)... - Prescribing indicators and their use by primary care groups to influence prescribingM Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King s College London, Lambeth Walk, London, UK
J Clin Pharm Ther 27:197-204. 2002.... - The relationship between social deprivation and the quality of primary care: a national survey using indicators from the UK Quality and Outcomes FrameworkMark Ashworth
Honorary Senior Lecturer, King s College London School of Medicine at Guy s, King s College and St Thomas Hospitals, London
Br J Gen Pract 57:441-8. 2007..The existence of health inequalities between least and most socially deprived areas is now well established... - Motivating general practitioners to change their prescribing: the incentive of working togetherM Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice, Kings College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, U K
J Clin Pharm Ther 25:119-24. 2000..Setting: General practice covering a geographical locality within inner-city south London. Subjects: All 72 general practitioners who had joined a GP Commissioning Group. Main outcome measures: questionnaire responses... - Social deprivation and statin prescribing: a cross-sectional analysis using data from the new UK general practitioner 'Quality and Outcomes Framework'M Ashworth
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King s College London School of Medicine at Guy s, King s College and St Thomas Hospitals, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 29:40-7. 2007..However, our findings suggest under-prescribing of statins to the elderly and possibly also to ethnic minorities... - Achievement of metabolic targets for diabetes by English primary care practices under a new system of incentivesM C Gulliford
Division of Health and Social Care Research, King s College London, UK
Diabet Med 24:505-11. 2007..To analyse achievement of metabolic targets by English general practices following the introduction of a new system of incentives... - Sphygmomanometer calibration: a survey of one inner-city primary care groupM Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice, King's College London, 80 Kennington Road, London SE11 6SP, UK
J Hum Hypertens 15:259-62. 2001..Surprisingly, inaccurate machines did not cluster in the less well developed practices. The implication is that all practices need to have procedures in place for the regular calibration of their sphygmomanometers... 
Outreach and Support in South London (OASIS). Outcomes of non-attenders to a service for people at high risk of psychosis: the case for a more assertive approach to assessmentC E L Green
King s College London, King s Health Partners, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychosis Studies, and Outreach and Support in South London OASIS, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK
Psychol Med 41:243-50. 2011....- Performance for healthYvonne Doyle
J R Soc Med 98:47-8. 2005 - Pay for performance systems in general practice: experience in the United KingdomMark Ashworth
Med J Aust 189:60-1. 2008 - Demand, appropriateness and prescribing of 'lifestyle drugs': a consultation survey in general practiceMark Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Kings College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, UK
Fam Pract 19:236-41. 2002..Prescribing guidelines and licensed indications were generally adhered to, but the modest level of demand raises questions about expanding the guidelines for sildenafil... - Prescribing incentive schemes in two NHS regions: cross sectional surveyMark Ashworth
Guy's, King's College, and St Thomas's School of Medicine, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, London
BMJ 324:1187-8. 2002 - How are primary care organizations using financial incentives to influence prescribing?Mark Ashworth
GKT Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King s College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP
J Public Health (Oxf) 26:48-51. 2004..We conclude that larger prescribing incentive scheme payments may have contributed to prescribing cost control but their effect on prescribing quality is uncertain... - Schizophrenia in black Caribbeans living in the UK: an exploration of underlying causes of the high incidence rateRebecca Pinto
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Division of Health and Social Care Research, King s College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, London
Br J Gen Pract 58:429-34. 2008.... - Satisfaction with respite care: a pilot studyMichael Nicoll
Unit of Health Psychology, University College London Medical School, London, UK
Health Soc Care Community 10:479-84. 2002..Regression analysis demonstrated that 17% of the variance in this satisfaction score was accounted for by the numbers in the social support network. Other factors did not significantly explain the observed variation... - Accuracy of the pressure scale of sphygmomanometers in clinical use within primary careAndrew J Coleman
Medical Physics Department, Division of Reproductive Health, Endocrinology and Development, Kings College School of Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 7EH cGKT, UK
Blood Press Monit 10:181-8. 2005....