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The need for and the role of a coordinator in child health surveillance/promotion
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In an important sense, the clinical consultation is the primary activity of medicine, and its autonomy should be the basic principle around which the health service is organised.1
In the case of the individual consultation initiated by the patient, it is relatively clear where the doctor's responsibilities lie in terms of providing a quality service and how this is organised. However, when a consultation is initiated by one or more of the health care team, as part of a nationally prescribed screening programme involving a number of professionals, there is an issue of who takes ultimate responsibility for the quality and delivery of the preventive programme as a whole.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child places a clear
responsibility on the state to provide access to preventive care, such
as maternal and infant health clinics and immunisation (Article 24).
The UK has a long history of setting
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