TY - JOUR T1 - Preserving generalist skills in the NHS – is a medical hospitalist service the way forward? The Canadian experience and how it could translate to the NHS JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 63 LP - 63 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s63 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Lynn Lambert AU - Peter Jamieson Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/63.abstract N2 - A description of a successful hospitalist service in a publically insured health system and its applicability to the UK health service with a view to better management of hospital capacity and rural staff shortfall.Review of medically qualified hospitalists in Calgary, Canada.Hospitalists in Canada are general physicians whose main focus of practice is the inpatient care of medically unwell patients in teaching or community-based hospitals, some of whom have a community-based office practice in addition. The hospitalist … ER -