The challenges of integrating signposting into general practice: qualitative stakeholder perspectives on care navigation and social prescribing in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A national policy focus in England to address general practice workforce issues has led to a commitment to employ significant numbers of non-general practitioner (GP) roles to redistribute workload. This paper focuses on two such roles: the care navigation (CN) and social prescribing link worker (SPLW) roles, which both aim to introduce 'active signposting' into primary care, to direct patients to the right professional/services at the right time and free up GP time. There is a lack of research exploring staff views of how these roles are being planned and operationalised into general practice and how signposting is being integrated into primary care.

Methods

The design uses in-depth qualitative methods to explore a wide range of stakeholder staff views. We genera

SUBMITTER: Brunton L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8972897 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature