General Practice and Primary Care

"General Practitioners at the Deep End"

Background 
Hot off the press!
Press coverage
Related publications
Reports
Other documents
Contacts for further information

Background

"General Practitioners at the Deep End" work in 100 general practices serving the most socio-economically deprived populations in Scotland.

The activities of the group are supported by: the Royal College of General Practitioners (Scotland); the Scottish Government Health Department; and General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Glasgow. At a local level there is substantial overlap between the Deep End Project and the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Primary Care Deprivation Group and the Lothian Deprivation Interest Group.

Hot off the press!

• May 2013
  • Graham Watt, Georgina Brown, John Budd, Peter Cawston, Margaret Craig, Robert Jamieson, Susan Langridge, Andrew Lyon, Stewart Mercer, Catriona Morton, Anne Mullin, Jim O’Neil, Euan Paterson, Petra Sambale, Andrea Williamson General Practitioners at the Deep End: The experience and views of general practitioners working in the most severely deprived areas of Scotland Occas Pap R Coll Gen Pract. 2012 April; (89): i-viii, 1-40. [Published 2012, Available online 2013]
• April 2013
  • Public audit committee report on inequalities in health Scottish Parliament, April 2013
  • DEEPEND REPORT 19 Access to specialists
    Main report (19) | Summary (19)
• March 2013
  • DEEPEND REPORT 20
    What can NHS Scotland do to prevent and reduce health inequalities?
    Main report (20)
• November 2012
  • Lead article in "Health Inqualities" (abridged version of Austerity Report)
• October 2012
  • MEETING SUMMARY What do Deep End GPs need to be good at?

Press coverage

• Government must throw GPs in at Deep End The Scotsman 10 July 2012
• GPs' warning over service in poor areas The Herald 05 July 2012
• Mental health of benefit claimants is put at risk by welfare reform The Guardian 20 June 2012
• Doctors warn austerity is damaging patients' health The Herald 15 May 2012

Related publications

• Graham Watt, Georgina Brown, John Budd, Peter Cawston, Margaret Craig, Robert Jamieson, Susan Langridge, Andrew Lyon, Stewart Mercer, Catriona Morton, Anne Mullin, Jim O’Neil, Euan Paterson, Petra Sambale, Graham Watt, Andrea Williamson General Practitioners at the Deep End: The experience and views of general practitioners working in the most severely deprived areas of Scotland Occas Pap R Coll Gen Pract. 2012 April; (89): i-viii, 1-40. [Published 2012, Available online 2013]
• ‌Public audit committee report on inequalities in health Scottish Parliament, April 2013
• Links Project Report Developing the connections between general practices and their communities Scottish Government 2012
• Watt G. Reflections at the Deep End. British Journal of General Practice 2012 62(594) 6-7
• Watt G. Inventing the wheel in general practice. British Journal of General Practice 2011 61(592), 685.  
• Watt G. A social institution based on mutuality and trust. British Journal of General Practice 2011 61, 741.
• Watt G. Time to make a difference. British Journal of General Practice 2011 61(590), 569.
• Watt G. The tortoise and the hare. British Journal of General Practice 2011 61(591), 629. 2011
• Article in Holyroodhttp://www.holyrood.com/articles/2011/09/19/deep-end/
• Sambale P, Mandeville B The Keppoch Medical Practice: reporting from the Deep End. Br J Gen Pract 2011; 61(588):463.
• Lyon A, Watt G. Learning journeys. Br J Gen Pract 2011; 61(589):519.
• Watt G. Alcohol problems in very deprived areas. Br J Gen Pract 2011; 61(587):407.
• Watt G. Anticipatory care in very deprived areas. Br J Gen Pract 2011; 61(584):228.
• Horton Richard. Offline: face to face, side by sideLancet 2011 377(9773):1224
• Watt G. Working with vulnerable families in deprived areas. Br J Gen Pract 2011; 61(585):298.
• Watt G. Anticipatory care in very deprived areas. Br J Gen Pract 2011; 61(584):228.
• Watt G. Patient encounters in very deprived areas. Br J Gen Pract 2011; 61(583):146.
• Watt G. GPs at the Deep End. Br J Gen Pract 2011; 61(582):66-67.

Reports

• REPORT 20 What can NHS Scotland do to prevent and reduce health inequalities? (April 2013)
  Main report (20)
• REPORT 19 Access to specialists (February 2013)
  Main report (19) | Summary (19)
• REPORT 18 Integrated care (July 2012)
  Summary (18) | Main report (18)
• REPORT 17 Detecting cancer early (June 2012)
  Summary (17) | Main report (17)
• REPORT 16 GPs at the Deep End Austerity Report (March 2012)
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• REPORT 15 Palliative care in the deep end (February 2011)
  Summary (15) | Main report (15)
• REPORT 14 Reviewing progress in 2010 and plans for 2011
  Summary (14) | Main report (14)
• REPORT 13 The Access Toolkit: views of Deep End GPs (January 2011)
  Summary (13) | Main report (13)
• REPORT 12 Working together for vulnerable children and families (September 2010)
  Summary (12) | Main report (12)
• REPORT 11 Alcohol problems in adults under 40 (August 2010)
  Summary (11) | Main report (11)
• REPORT 10 Care of elderly patients (August 2010)
  Summary (10) | Main report (10)
• REPORT 9 Learning journeys (August 2010)
  Summary (09) | Main report (09)
• REPORT 8 Social prescribing (September 2010)
  Summary (08) | Main report (08)
• REPORT 7 General practitioner training in very deprived areas (June 2010)
  Summary (07) | Main report (07)
• REPORT 6 Patient encounters in very deprived areas: what can be achieved? (May 2010)
  Summary (06) | Main report (06)
• REPORT 5 Single-handed general practice (May 2010)
  Summary (05) | Main report (05)
• REPORT 4 Experience and views of Keep Well and ASSIGN (January 2010)
  Summary (04) | Main report (04)
• REPORT 3 The GP role in working with vulnerable families (January 2010)
  Summary (03) | Main report (03)
• REPORT 2 Coping with needs, demands and resources (January 2010)
  Summary (02) | Main report (02)
• REPORT 1 General practitioners at the deep end (September 2009)
  Main report (01)

The collated reports are also available in the Connecting with General Practice to Improve Public Health report of the Primary Care Observatory and Deep End Projects, Glasgow Centre for Population Health 2011 which can be downloaded at www.gcph.co.uk/publications/277_gps_at_the_deep_end

Other documents 

• Our logo explained...
• Deep End response to Keep Well consultation
• Deep End response to NHS QIS Vulnerable Families Pathways Framework
• One page meeting summaries (Jan 2010 to Feb 2011)

Contacts for further information

• John Budd Lothian Deprivation Interest Group John.Budd@lothian.scot.nhs.uk
• Ruth Gibb RCGP Scotland rgibb@rcgp-scotland.org.uk
• Petra Sambale Keppoch Medical Practice, Glasgow psambale@btinternet.com
• Graham Watt University of Glasgow graham.watt@glasgow.ac.uk