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Challenging medicine: how to influence the agenda in foot surgery

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Podiatric Surgery and <strong>the</strong> NHS : <strong>in</strong>tegration<br />

GP fund holders purchase podiatric <strong>surgery</strong> services: “GPs praise<br />

podiatry” GP journal published report which ‘praised’ podiatric <strong>surgery</strong><br />

as cost-effective accessible service with excellent outcomes (1995)<br />

(General Practitioner, 24 th February 1995; Milsom 1995)<br />

Medical audit on orthopaedic and podiatric fore<strong>foot</strong> surgical services :<br />

found “comparable” performance on fore<strong>foot</strong> <strong>surgery</strong> and “generally<br />

supported <strong>the</strong> recognition of surgical expertise of podiatrists”<br />

(Lax<strong>to</strong>n 1993, 1996)

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