ABSTRACT
Before we move on, a brief hiatus. It was in 1988, after my American experience, that an old friend approached me with a proposition. Peter Pritchard was a pioneering GP in the new village of Berinsfield, quite close to both Abingdon and Oxford. He was very active in local medical and social affairs, and his particular enthusiasm was patient participation in healthcare. Our consultation work was pivotal to a lot of his thinking. He had set up an Oxford educational collaboration, the UK Nordic Medical Educational Trust, along with the then Professor of General Practice in Oxford, Godfrey Fowler, whose wife was Scandinavian, and leading Oxford academic GP Martin Lawrence, all good friends.
