Create and maintain an age-sex register.

Abstract

An age-sex register is thought to be a good thing by many general practitioners'; despite this half of those surveyed recently did not have one and most of these had no plans to establish one.2 This seems surprising when information technology that will make a list of patients arranged according to age and sex is available to all general practitioners and family practitioner committees (health boards in Scotland).3 These computerised age-sex registers are easy to create and maintain with regular-for example-qu…