2. The Primary Healthcare Team

2020 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-65
Keyword(s):  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Team

scholarly journals Prostate disease: management options for the primary healthcare team. Report of a working party of the British Prostate Group.

1995 ◽  
Vol 71 (833) ◽  
pp. 136-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Chisholm ◽  
S. J. Carne ◽  
J. M. Fitzpatrick ◽  
N. J. George ◽  
J. C. Gingell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Management ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Prostate Disease

Presenting primary care teams to the public: a qualitative exploration of general practice websites

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. bjgp18X697049
Author(s):  
Helen Anderson ◽  
Joy Adamson ◽  
Yvonne Birks
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Patient Choice ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Groups

BackgroundIncreasing demand and expanded primary care provision, coupled with a reduced GP workforce present challenges for primary care. New workforce models aim to reduce general practitioner workload by directing patients to a variety of alternative clinicians. Concurrently, the principle of patient choice in relation to healthcare providers has gained prominence. It is, therefore, necessary to provide patients with sufficient information to negotiate access to appropriate primary healthcare professionals.AimTo explore how practice websites present three exemplar healthcare professional groups (GPs, advanced nurse practitioners [ANPs], and practice nurses [PNs]) to patients and the implications for informing appropriate consultation choices.MethodQualitative thematic analysis of a sample of general practice websites. 79 accessible websites from a district in England were thematically analysed in relation to professional representation and signposting of the three identified professional groups.ResultsInformation about each group was incomplete, inconsistent and sometimes inaccurate across the majority of general practice websites. There was a lack of coherence and strategy in representation and direction of website users towards appropriate primary healthcare practitioners.ConclusionLimited and unclear representation of professional groups on general practice websites may have implications for the direction of patients to the wider clinical healthcare team. Patients may not have appropriate information to make choices about consulting with different healthcare practitioners. This constitutes a missed opportunity to signpost patients to appropriate clinicians and enhance understanding of different professional roles. Potential for websites to disseminate information to the public is not being maximised.

scholarly journals Presenting the primary care team to the public: a qualitative exploration of general practice websites

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (668) ◽  
pp. e178-e186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Anderson ◽  
Joy Adamson ◽  
Yvonne Birks
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Patient Choice ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Groups

BackgroundIncreasing demand and expanded primary care provision, coupled with a reduced GP workforce, present challenges for primary care. New workforce models aim to reduce GP workload by directing patients to a variety of alternative clinicians. Concurrently, the principle of patient choice in relation to healthcare providers has gained prominence. It is, therefore, necessary to provide patients with sufficient information to negotiate access to appropriate primary healthcare professionals.AimTo explore how practice websites present three exemplar healthcare professional groups (GPs, advanced nurse practitioners [ANPs], and practice nurses [PNs]) to patients and the implications for informing appropriate consultation choices.Design and settingQualitative thematic analysis of a sample of general practice websites.MethodIn total, 79 accessible websites from a metropolitan district in the north of England were thematically analysed in relation to professional representation and signposting of the three identified professional groups.ResultsInformation about each group was incomplete, inconsistent, and sometimes inaccurate across the majority of general practice websites. There was a lack of coherence and strategy in representation and direction of website users towards appropriate primary healthcare practitioners.ConclusionLimited and unclear representation of professional groups on general practice websites may have implications for the direction of patients to the wider clinical healthcare team. Patients may not have appropriate information to make choices about consulting with different healthcare practitioners. This constitutes a missed opportunity to signpost patients to appropriate clinicians and enhance understanding of different professional roles. The potential for websites to disseminate information to the public is not being maximised.

PP422 Including Empowering Community Into Primary Healthcare Team Scope Of Practice – A Technology For Ensuring Universal Healthcare Coverage

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (S1) ◽  
pp. 35-35
Author(s):  
Rabiga Khozhamkul ◽  
Lyazzat Kosherbaeva ◽  
Ainur Bakdaulet ◽  
Talapkali Izmukhambetov ◽  
Arnoldas Jurgutis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
World Health ◽  
Scope Of Practice ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Universal Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Coverage ◽  
Universal Healthcare Coverage

IntroductionConsidering the World Health Organization (WHO) Astana Declaration, in order to provide universal healthcare coverage, Kazakhstan through ongoing healthcare reform committed to the promotion of a people-centered Primary Healthcare (PHC) system. Since the implemented top-down policies showed low buy-in from community members and put more constraints on PHC facilities and teams, the Kazakh National Medical University, the Medeo district mayor's office and the WHO European Centre for PHC supported the initiative of a local non-governmental organization “Community health committee” and Outpatient clinic of Almaty State hospital #5, for creation of an integrated plan to develop people-centered PHC through better coverage and engagement of patients with non-communicable disease and enhancing the health literacy of the population above 65 years.MethodsWe used a community-based participatory approach. The process consisted of: forming a steering committee with at least one member from each stakeholder group; two interactive workshops where the community worked jointly with PHC professionals in defining priority health needs and proposing actions to address selected priorities; and, after, joint development by all stakeholders of an action plan for empowerment of the community, and for assessment and review of the scope of practice of PHC teams.ResultsThe interactive workshops identified priority health needs such as low health literacy, low responsibility for health, low engagement of the elderly in prevention and self-management of non-communicable diseases. The main findings of semi-structured interviews were that there are no planning approaches (neither shared planning by a PHC team, or individually by PHC professionals) for addressing defined priority needs of the community, families and/or patients, and that the role of a PHC team in community empowerment is very limited.ConclusionsUsing results of the review on PHC teams’ scope of practice, we will develop, discuss and agree with the national and local stakeholders’ proposal of a conceptual model of PHC service delivery. Further, we will implement and evaluate the results of implementation.

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