原文正文：
In many areas the establishment of the new District Health Authorities entails a rearrangement of the ways in which some community physicians will function. The British Medical Association's Central Committee for Community Medicine (CCCM) has already circulated a document outlining the tasks of community physicians employed by Dstrict Health Authorities. This has concentrated on the managerial responsibilities, the operational activities and the size and nature of the workforce needed to discharge them. The Faculty has supported the CCCM document. At the same time it has prepared a complementary paper,based upon views received from community physicians in the regions, in which the emphasis is placed more upon the role of community medicine in the restructured service. We reproduce it here in the belief that it will be of particular help to any of the specialty's practitioners who continue to have to expound its raison d'etre in a professionally competitive environment.
