GP Continuity of Care Breakdown
Failures in delivering continuity of care within GP practices, often due to contract limitations, leading to delayed diagnoses.
5 items
1 source
5 inquiries
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Where this theme appears
GP Continuity of Care Breakdown has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
5 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (5)
18 — Role of general practitioners
Recommendation: The employment of general practitioners should be rationalised to cover the day-to-day needs of long-stay patients: but their valuable contribution should not be regarded as a substitute for specialist services.
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79 — Allocate a social worker of home authority
Recommendation: Where a child is placed outside the area of its own home authority a social worker preferably of the home authority should be identified and allocated to that child (17.9).
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66 — Assigning personal officers to prisoners
Recommendation: Personal officers should be assigned to individual prisoners, not to a group of cells. They should be members of a small team, so that when a prisoner’s personal officer is not on duty, the prisoner can approach another member of …
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LAMI-72 — Ensure identified GP for children with deliberate harm concerns discharged from hospital.
Recommendation: No child about whom there are concerns about deliberate harm should be discharged from hospital back into the community without an identified GP. Responsibility for ensuring this happens rests with the hospital consultant under whose care the child has been …
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2 — Patient-focused correspondence
Recommendation: We recommend that it should be standard practice that consultants in both the NHS and the independent sector should write to patients, outlining their condition and treatment, in simple language, and copy this letter to the patient's GP, rather than …
Words of: Department of Health and Social Care, Government response to the independent inquiry report into the issues raised by former surgeon Ian Paterson, 16 December 2021
Gov response: Accept Guidance across the healthcare system now states that consultants should write directly to patients and in a way they understand. Key stakeholders have committed to writing to their members to encourage uptake. Over the …
Accepted
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