Day hospital care by general practitioners in a cottage/community hospital.

Community hospitals in the new NHS

“…If they are to play a major part in health care they need to be more effectively managed, and that means defining what it is that they can do best. Their likely future is as local centres providing mainly specialist outpatient services,8 day hospital care,9 community health and nursing services, and minor surgical and accident services 10. The need for substantial inpatient services will diminish as the private and voluntary sector take up the provision of these.…”