A study of role expansion: a new GP role in cardiology care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Health Service is reconfiguring health care services in order to meet the increasing challenge of providing care for people with long-term conditions and to reduce the demand on specialised outpatient hospital services by enhancing primary care. A review of cardiology referrals to specialised care and the literature on referral management inspired the development of a new GP role in Cardiology. This new extended role was developed to enable GPs to diagnose and manage patients with mild to moderate heart failure or atrial fibrillation and to use a range of diagnostics effectively in primary care. This entailed GPs participating in a four-session short course with on-going clinical supervision. The new role was piloted in a small number of GP practices in one

SUBMITTER: Pollard L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4048052 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature