Relevant research publications

Inverse Care Law and health inequalities

Watt, G.C.M. (2002) The inverse care law today. Lancet, 360, pp. 252-254. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)09466-7)

Norbury, M., Mercer, S.W., Gillies, J., Furler, J., and Watt, G.C.M. (2011) Time to care: tackling health inequalities through primary care. Family Practice, 28(1), pp. 1-3. (doi:10.1093/fampra/cmq118)

Watt, G. (2010) Commentary. British Journal of General Practice, 60(570), p. 58. (doi:10.3399/bjgp10X482248)

Watt, G.C.M. (2008) The NHS at 60: time to end the fairy tale. British Journal of General Practice, July 2, pp. 459-460. (doi:10.3399/bjgp08X302952)

Watt, G.C.M. (2008) What is the NHS for? British Journal of General Practice, 58(555), pp. 727-728. (doi:10.3399/bjgp08X342381)

Content and outcome of GP consultations

Mercer, S.W., and Watt, G.C.M. (2007) The inverse care law: clinical primary care encounters in deprived and affluent areas of Scotland. Annals of Family Medicine, 5, pp. 503-510. (doi:10.1370/afm.778)

Mercer, S. W., Higgins, M., Bikker, A. M., Fitzpatrick, B., McConnachie, A., Lloyd, S. M., Little, P., and Watt, G. C. M. (2016) General practitioners empathy and health outcomes: a prospective observational study of consultations in areas of high and low deprivation. Annals of Family Medicine, 14(2), pp. 117-124. (doi:10.1370/afm.1910) (PMID:26951586)

Mercer, S.W., Jani, B.D., Maxwell, M., Wong, S.Y.S., and Watt, G.C.M. (2012) Patient enablement requires physician empathy: a cross-sectional study of general practice consultations in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation in Scotland. BMC Family Practice, 13, p. 6. (doi:10.1186/1471-2296-13-6)

Lundy, J.-M., Bikker, A., Higgins, M., Watt, G. C., Little, P., Humphries, G. M., and Mercer, S. W. (2015) General practitioners' patient-centredness and responses to patients' emotional cues and concerns: relationships with perceived empathy in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation. Journal of Compassionate Health Care, 2, 2. (doi:10.1186/s40639-015-0011-6)

Watt, G. (2015) Discretion is the better part of general practice. British Journal of General Practice, 65(635), p. 306. (doi:10.3399/bjgp15X685357) (PMID:26009518)

Mercer, S.W., Fitzpatrick, B., Gourlay, G., Vojt, G., Mcconnachie, A., and Watt, G.C.M. (2007) More time for complex consultations in a high deprivation practice is associated with increased patient enablement. British Journal of General Practice, 57(545), pp. 960-966. (doi:10.3399/096016407782604910)

Mercer, S. W., O'Brien, R., Fitzpatrick, B., Higgins, M., Guthrie, B., Watt, G., and Wyke, S. (2016) The development and optimisation of a primary care-based whole system complex intervention (CARE Plus) for patients with multimorbidity living in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. Chronic Illness, (doi:10.1177/1742395316644304) (PMID:27068113)

Inverse Care Law (GP funding)

McLean, G., Guthrie, B., Mercer, S.W., and Watt, G.C.M. (2015) General practice funding underpins the persistence of the inverse care law: cross-sectional study in Scotland. British Journal of General Practice, 65(641), e799-e805. (doi:10.3399/bjgp15X687829)

Inverse Care Law (distribution of GPs)

Mackay, D., Sutton, M., and Watt, G. (2005) Deprivation and volunteering by general practices: cross sectional analysis of a national primary care system. British Medical Journal, 331(7530), pp. 1449-1451. (doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7530.1449)

Mackay, D.F., and Watt, G.C.M. (2010) General practice size determines participation in optional activities: cross-sectional analysis of a national primary care system. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 11(3), pp. 271-279. (doi:10.1017/S1463423610000058)

Blane, D.N., McLean, G., and Watt, G. (2015) Distribution of GPs in Scotland by age, gender and deprivation. Scottish Medical Journal, 60(4), pp. 214-219. (doi:10.1177/0036933015606592) (PMID:26403569)

GP education and training

MacVicar, R., Williamson, A., Cunningham, D., and Watt, G. (2015) What are the CPD needs of GPs working in areas of high deprivation? Report of a focus group meeting of ‘GPs at the deep end’. Education for Primary Care, 26(3), pp. 139-145. (doi:10.1080/14739879.2015.11494332)

Blane, D.N., Hesselgreaves, H., McLean, G., Lough, M., and Watt, G.C.M. (2013) Attitudes towards health inequalities amongst GP trainers in Glasgow, and their ideas for changes in training. Education for Primary Care, 24(2), pp. 97-104.

Multimorbidity

Barnett, K., Mercer, S.W., Norbury, M., Watt, G., Wyke, S., and Guthrie, B. (2012) Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study. Lancet, 380(9836), pp. 37-43. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60240-2)

McLean, G., Gunn, J., Wyke, S., Guthrie, B., Watt, G. C.M., Blane, D. N., and Mercer, S. W. (2014) The influence of socioeconomic deprivation on multimorbidity at different ages: a cross-sectional study. British Journal of General Practice, 64(624), e440-e447. (doi:10.3399/bjgp14X680545) (PMID:24982497) (PMCID:PMC4073730)

O'Brien, R., Wyke, S., Guthrie, B., Watt, G.C.M., and Mercer, S.W. (2011) An ‘endless struggle’: a qualitative study of general practitioners’ and practice nurses’ experiences of managing multimorbidity in socio-economically deprived areas of Scotland. Chronic Illness, 7(1), pp. 45-59. (doi:10.1177/1742395310382461)

O'Brien, R., Wyke, S., Guthrie, B., Watt, G. C.C.M., and Mercer, S. W. (2014) The ‘everyday work’ of living with multimorbidity in socioeconomically deprived areas of Scotland. Journal of Comorbidity, 4(1), pp. 1-10. (doi:10.15256/joc.2014.4.32)

Mercer, S.W., Guthrie, B., Furler, J., Watt, G.C.M., and Hart, J.T. (2012) Multimorbidity and the inverse care law in primary care. British Medical Journal, 344, e4152. (doi:10.1136/bmj.e4152)

Various

Watt, G.C.M., O'Donnell, C.A., and Sridharan, S. (2011) Building on Julian Tudor Hart's example of anticipatory care. Primary Health Care Research and Development, (doi:10.1017/S1463423610000216)

Richards, H.M., Reid, M.E., and Watt, G.C.M. (2002) Socioeconomic variations in responses to chest pain: qualitative study. British Medical Journal, 324(7349), p. 1308. (doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7349.1308)