To the Editor: Your 3 July issue featured task substitution and task transfer. It is a principle of commercial organisation that if a task can be standardised, it can be delegated, automated or computerised, provided there is good central management, supervision and communication. However, I suspect that this is only a part of the new face of general practice, as we are being expected to undertake tasks for which my age cohort (I am 54) was neither trained nor prepared.
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- Research and Health Promotion Unit, Private Medical Practitioner's Rooms, Sunbury, VIC.
Correspondence: chris.hogan@racgp.org.au
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