the primary health care team. practice manager
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The primary health care team
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Practice Manager
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Practice Nurse
• Health promotion• Immunization• New registration checks• Specialists clinics eg Asthma,Diabetes• Administration• Audit
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Nurse Practitioner
• Specially trained nurses who take on clinical responsibility
• Can see patients with chronic disease eg hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD,
• Give contraception advice• can prescribe antibiotics eg for UTI, otitis
media• See patients with low back pain, rashes and
other minor illness
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• They alleviate pressure on GPs• They are at least as effective as GPs in the
roles they perform
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District Nurses
• Have community nursing qualification• Look after chronically ill patients and those
recently discharged from hospital• Pressure sores, continence, palliative care eg
syringe drivers, bladder scans
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Health Visitor
• Visit all babies after midwife ceases to attend• Carry out developmental assessment checks,
advise on general care and immunizations
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Midwife
• Important link between hospitals, GPs and other members of the primary health care team in obstetric care
• Refer to a doctor in the event of complications but can practice independently when dealing with uncomplicated pregnancies
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Receptionist
• Essential role as the interface between the general public and the GPs and the nursing staff
• At some practices they have head receptionist who sort out the rotas and repeat prescriptions
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Administrative and clerical staff
• Scanning • Referral letters and choose and book• Letters for clinics eg flu clinic