Primary health care team Flashcards
Where did GPs originally work?
In the 1940s GPs worked from their own homes
What is the role of GPs?
- Primary healthcare providers
- Gatekeepers to secondary healthcare
Who forms the primary healthcare team?
- GP partners
- GP assistants and other salaried doctors
- GP registrars
- Practice nurse
- Practice managers
- Receptionists
- Community nurses
- Midwives
- Health visitors
- Nurse practitioners
What is the role of a GP partner?
- GPs are also the first point of contact for most patients.
- GPs provide a complete spectrum of care within the local community: dealing with problems that often combine physical, psychological and social components
Whos responosihbilty is it to employ staff in a GP practice ?
GP partners
Whos responsibility is it to provide adequate premises for a GP practice?
GP partners
What give GP partners so much independence?
Most GPs are independent contractors to the NHS
What is the role of the practice nurse?
They might be involved in most aspects of patient care including:
- Obtaining blood samples
- ECGs
- Minor and complex wound management including leg ulcers
- Travel health advice and vaccinations
- Child immunisations and advice
- Family planning & women’s health including cervical smears
- Men’s health screening
- Sexual health services
- Smoking cessation.
- General practice nurses may also have direct supervision of healthcare assistants at the practice.
What is the role of District nurse?
- They visit people in their own homes or in residential care homes, providing increasingly complex care for patients and supporting family members.
- District nurses also have a teaching and support role for patients or their families
- Keeping hospital admissions and readmissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.
- Assess the healthcare needs of patients and families, monitor the quality of care they’re receiving and are professionally accountable for delivery of care.
What is the role of midwives?
- Midwives provide care during all stages of pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period.
Where do midwives work?
- Many midwives now work in the community, providing services in women’s homes, local clinics, children’s centres and GP surgeries.
- There is the option to be hospital based, where there are opportunities for midwives to work on antenatal, labour and postnatal wards and neonatal units.
What is the role of a health visitor?
Lead and deliver child and family health services (pregnancy through to 5 years) supporting and educating families.
Provide ongoing additional services for vulnerable children and families
Contribute to multidisciplinary services in safeguarding and protecting children
They also provide leadership to the child services team.
Retain the overview of the health and well-being of children and families in your area
In terms of Leading and delivering child and family health services what may a health visitor provide?
Common tasks include:
- Offering parenting support and advice on family health and minor illnesses
- New birth visits which include advice on feeding, weaning and dental health
- Physical and developmental checks
- Providing families with specific support on subjects such as post natal depression.
In terms of Providing ongoing additional services for vulnerable children and families what may a health visitor provide?
The type of support can include:
- Referring families to specialists, such as speech and language therapists
- Arranging access to support groups
- Organising practical support - for example working with a nursery nurse on the importance of play.
In terms of Contributing to multidisciplinary services in safeguarding and protecting children what may a health visitor provide?
- Trainedin recognising the risk factors, triggers of concern, and signs of abuse and neglect in children. They also knowwhat needs to be done to protect them.
- First to recognise where actions need to be taken place to protect a child.
- Maintain contact with families while formal safeguarding arrangements are put into place. This ensuresfamilies receive the best possible support during this time
- They are sometimes called upon to appear in court to explain the action taken.
What is the role of a MacMillan nurse?
Macmillan nurses offer the following:
- Specialised pain and symptom control
- Emotional support both for the patient and their family or carer
- Care in a variety of settings – in hospital (both inpatient and outpatient), at home or from a local clinic
- Information about cancer treatments and side effects
- Advice to other members of the caring team, for example district nurses and Marie Curie nurses
- Co-ordinated care between hospital and the patient’s home
- Advice on other forms of support, including financial help.
- Macmillan nurses do not carry out routine nursing tasks, such as personal hygiene, changing dressings and giving medicines, and do not focus on non-cancer patients.They will coordinate a team of people to do this.
What are MacMillon nurses specialists in?
Macmillan nurses specialise in cancer and palliative care, providing support and information to people with cancer, and their families, friends and carers, from the point of diagnosis onwards.
Give examples of allied healthcare professionals.
Physiotherapy
Occupational Therapy
Dietetics
Podiatry
Pharmacy
Counselling
What is the role of a pharmacist?
They advise medical and nursing staff on the selection and appropriate use of medicines. They provide information to patients on how to manage their medicines to ensure optimal treatment.
Pharmacists are able to undertake additional training in order to allow them to prescribe medicines for specific conditions.
