2011/08/01 by Andrew Lyon, Graham Watt
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Global Health Workforce Issues #Healthcare innovation and challenges #Primary Care and Health Outcomes
paper · pdf · doi:10.3399/bjgp11x588529
openalex publication_date 2011/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
> If we do not change direction > > We shall arrive where we are heading > > (Chinese proverb) An occupational hazard of GPs is that they can be so busy attending to the problems of their patients and practices that they have no time to consider where they are heading. As an alternative to their daily work, Andrew Lyon of the International Futures Forum led two groups of GPs from Deep End practices on learning journeys to a variety of surprise destinations.1 The workplaces visited included public, private and voluntary organisations: KEY Community Supports, an organisation which resettles people with learning disabilities from large institutions to small community settings; a social entrepreneur, leading the Family Business Association, whose members have to combine business disciplines with family relationships; GalGael, an organisation which rehabilitates people with addiction and other problems via craft-based activities, principally building and sailing traditional clinker built boats; Glasgow Life, the charity responsible for running the city's public cultural facilities and sports centres; Bridging the Gap, an organisation which works to bridge any gap which divides people living …