Small group meetings of general practitioners and nurses are common; either during mutual visits in practices, in restaurants or during other events. Talks usually turn to professional topics.
Doctors and nurses spontanously share their clinical and professional experience, discuss their diagnostic and therapeutic successes and failures, motivate and learn from each other. Small group meetings have both social and educational content and subsequently contribute to quality of care improvement.
These activities were supressed due to atomisation of practices and organised CME development, nevertheless small group meetings stay to be a natural need for independent primary care providers.