27 May 2009

GENERAL PRACTICE

Urgent care - a practical guide to transforming same-day care in general practice (May 2009)
This report, published by the Primary Care Foundation, will be launched at a workshop on 25th June. The report focused on three questions concerning patients who contacted their practice with an urgent need:
  • Will they get through?
  • Will they be identified?
  • Will they be seen rapidly?
Recommendations included that practices should:
  • Address the urgent needs of a patient
  • Match capacity to demand
  • Ensure that the full range of cases that might need urgent attention will reliably be recognised by staff
  • Set deadlines for assessment and intervention and measure performance against these
  • Review and audit the processes to refine the way they operate
Report

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