Clinics & Services
Care Navigation
Information
Virtually everyone who calls a GP surgery to make an appointment asks to see a GP, but very often help will be available more quickly from other highly skilled medical professionals such as nurses or pharmacists, or from another service, including the voluntary sector, who can support people with a wide range of social, emotional or practical needs.
Care Navigation is a tried and tested model of care that improves access to primary care services for patients and reduces GP pressures all in one. It allows front line staff to provide patients with more information about local health and wellbeing services, both within and outside of primary care, in a safe, effective way. It is about offering patients choice and help to access the most appropriate service first which is not always the GP. It means that patients will find it easier to get a GP appointment when they need one.
All of our reception staff have undertaken training in this respect.