The Team Around the Patient Flashcards
GPs play what role?
GPs play a role as ‘gatekeepers’ to secondary healthcare as well as managing many health problems within primary healthcar
What does PHCT stand for?
Primary health care team
Who does the traditional primary health care team consist of?
- GP partners
- GP assistants and other salaried doctors
- GP registrars
- Practice nurses
- Practice managers
- Receptionists
- Community nurses
- District nurses
- Macmillan nurse
- Midwives
- Health visitors
- Nurse practitioners
- Allied health professionals
- Physiotherapist
- Occupational therapy
- Dietetics
- Podiatry
- Pharmacist
- Counselling
- Care manager
- Complimentary therapists
- Acupuncture
- Homeopathy
- Social services
- Social workers
- Health care workers
- Health promotion
- Gyms
- Education
What are examples of community nurses?
District nurse
Macmillan nurse
Where do district nurses visit patients?
There own homes
What are Macmilllan nurses specialists in?
- Specialise in cancer and palliative care, giving support to people with cancer
What do Macmillan nurses offer?
- Specialised pain and symptoms control
- Emotional support both for patient and family
- Care in a variety of settings (hospital, home or local clinic)
- Information about cancer treatments and side effects
- Advice to other team members of the caring team
- Co-ordinate care between hospital and the patient’s home
- Advice on other forms of support, including financial help
Who do midwives provide care to?
- Provides care during all stages of pregnancy, labour and early postnatal care
What do health visitors do?
- Lead and deliver child and family health services (pregnancy though to 5 years)
- Provide ongoing additional services for vulnerable children
- Contribute to MDT services in safeguarding and protecting children
What ages do health visitors care for?
Pregnancy through to 5 years
What are examples of allied health professionals?
Physiotherapist
Occupational therapy
Dietetics
Podiatry
Pharmacist
Counselling
What do physiotherapists do?
- Teat people with physical problems caused by illness, accident or ageing
- Identify and maximise movement through health promotion, preventative healthcare, treatment and rehabilitation
What are some core skills of physiotherapists?
- Manual therapy
- Therapeutic exercise
- Application of electro-physical modalities
What do occupational therapists do?
- Assessment and treatment of physical and psychiatric conditions using specific activity to prevent disability and promote independent functions in all aspects of daily life
- Work with people of all ages to overcome effects of disability caused by physical or psychological illness, ageing or an accident
Who do occupational therapists typically care for?
- Can work with young children, adolescents, adults and other people in these areas
- Physical rehabilitation
- Mental health services
- Learning disability
- Primary care
- Paediatrics
- Environmental adaptation
- Care management
- Equipment for daily living
What do dietetics do?
- Communication of nutritional science to enable people to make informed choices about their food and lifestyle in health and disease
Who are most dietetics employed by?
- Most are employed by the HS but some work in the food industry, education, research and on freelance basis
What are some responsibilities of dietetics?
- Working with people with special dietary needs
- Informing the general public about nutrition
- Offering unbiased advice
- Evaluating and improving treatments
- Educating patients/clients and other healthcare professionals and community groups
Where can pharmacists work?
- Work in hospital, community or primary care pharmacy