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A system where all patients have a telephone call with their GP before an appointment decreased the number of face-to-face consultations but increased telephone consultations. There was an overall 8% increase in the time GPs spent consulting, though there was large variation across practices.
The Integrated Care Communities will work together to improve the overall health and wellbeing of local people by joining up local health and care services, bringing more care out of hospital and into the communities and people’s homes, and supporting people to manage their own health conditions.
The ICCs are being developed in response to the changing needs of the population which the current system is struggling to cope with. The ambition will see health and social care professionals, GPs, the voluntary sector and the community working together in each Integrated Care Community as one team to improve the health and wellbeing of local people. They are focusing on helping people to manage long term health conditions, improve access to information about healthier lifestyles and providing more care in the community and at home.
The vision that drove the transformation of the Canterbury health system and that has continued to be its focus is one orientated around care that is people centred, that is connected and that aims not to waste patients’ time: in other words, care that is provided at the right time, by the right person, in the right place.
Looking at the experiences of Pegasus Health, a clinically led, management-enabled primary care network of general practices in Canterbury, gives some hints to how a solution can be achieved. Pegasus Health supports more than 350 GPs in 100 practices within the Christchurch and Canterbury area to deliver care for 420,000 enrolled patients.
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A pilot scheme in Workington has saved more than 150 GP appointments in the first two months for patients with muscle and joint problems.
The scheme sees a Specialist Musculoskeletal (MSK) Practitioner working closely with GPs to ensure patients are seen quickly and by the right person. All Workington GP surgeries are involved so if a patient calls their surgery with a muscle or joint problem they can be offered an appointment with the Specialist MSK Practitioner based at Workington Community Hospital without the need to see a GP or an onward referral to an acute hospital outpatient clinic.
This briefing analyses information on the community care contracts held by 78% of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England to enable better understanding of the provision of these services.
As of April 1 2017, Lancashire Care will work in partnership with Blackburn with Darwen Council and other voluntary sector providers to deliver the new, fully integrated, Healthy Child Programme.
Following a competitive tendering process, the new programme will build on previous achievements in the borough by bringing together health visiting, school nursing, specialist infant feeding and other third sector services to provide a consolidated public health service for children aged 0-19 years.
Over 700 more practices in England will benefit from having a pharmacist located in their GP surgery covering up to six million patients and helping to free up GP time. Clinical pharmacists work as part of the general practice team by providing expertise on day-to-day medicine issues and providing consultations with patients directly
Advice and Guidance (A&G) is a scheme that connects GPs with hospital specialists via a secure electronic conversation, for advice on patients, without the need to refer a person for an appointment to outpatients.
The scheme was introduced as a pilot between the Trust and the Landscape GP surgery in Garstang in 2014 and is now available across Morecambe Bay. It has expanded since its launch to cover 19 health specialties.
We heard that the UK government is seeking to improve the working systems between primary care and Accident and Emergency teams in England to help reduce pressure on services and cut waiting times for patients.
So we thought you might like to hear about our experiment that has been coproduced between patients, primary care staff, ambulance staff and emergency room (ER) staff in Jönköping County Region. Our scheme is the first of its kind in Sweden.
From April 2017, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust will introduce developments to the way care is delivered in the community and will be investing over £1m to expand community services.
This will double the number of outpatient appointments offered at some community hospitals, provide short term support packages to bridge the gap between home and hospital to over 3000 people and reduce hospital admissions, seeing 350 people through a new frailty assessment service.