This research aims to evaluate organizational and performance features of a traditional Basic Health Unit, from the Primary Health Care service network, from users' perspective. The sample of 55 users was established using the same criteria of a rapid evaluation methodology, which was already validated and based on a free lectureship research sampling process. Empirical data were collected using the Primary Care Assessment Tool instrument validatedfor Brazil. Results revealed that access is one of the bottlenecks in the system. Primary Health Care practice does not focus on families and community in its process of work. The Basic Health Unit offers several services, establishing itself as an entrance to the system, though it does not always establish a link with users. Investments are needed in the Brazilian municipal health network in order to strengthen Primary Health Care attributes.

This work is a theoretical revision of team work in a family Health Care Program. We define team work in the health care field as a relationship network among people, power, knowledge, affection, and wishes, when there is a possibility of identifying group processes. We deal with concepts of Operational Group from the Argentinean School, which might help health professionals to get training in team work. We have visible (spoken) and invisible (unspoken) tasks within teams, which are modified and need to be combined and known. Communication, learning, the feeling of belonging, the atmosphere, the actions' pertinence for the team's purpose and power relations may help the team to get to know and analyze each other and to build a team. External supervision may help the team to turn itself into an operational team, working towards a life care project.

Investiga-se uma experiência de supervisão de equipes de saúde da família no município de Ribeirão Preto, utilizando o referencial da análise institucional e de grupo operativo de Pichon-Rivière como forma de facilitar a auto-análise e auto-gestão, num processo contínuo de construção, desconstrução e reconstrução de saberes e práticas, construção de uma grupalidade na equipe e de um projeto coletivo, com o propósito de deslocar a atenção da equipe, da produção de procedimentos para a produção de cuidado. Enfocam-se as dificuldades do supervisor em romper com as próprias matrizes de produção de procedimentos mais que de cuidados; de lidar com a divisão técnica e social do trabalho em saúde, buscando um trabalho mais democrático, participativo e de respeito às diferenças; de lidar com a questão dos preconceitos e com as pré-concepções dos trabalhadores em relação aos usuários e com a desconstrução da relação poder/saber; de apoiar a equipe na análise das implicações inerentes à própria relação de atendimento, do estabelecimento de vínculo e responsabilização que tem se mantido escondido atrás do trabalho técnico. Os aspectos assinalados como dificultadores podem ser também facilitadores pela potência de abrir-se para múltiplas possibilidades de ação e criação, ao serem analisados pela equipe.

the leads identified during the study were as follows: group organization involves investment in motivation and leadership by the coordinators; production of grouping and cohesion is a result of participants and coordinators meeting together, interspersed with dialog, things said and left unsaid that the subjects expressed in the group dynamic; the sense of belonging guarantees their placement in the group based on the recognition of their knowledge and affective, social and health needs.