In the same manner that I can phone the school nurse and say 'can you do a hearing test for my dc' and she toddles off to the school and does one, why should I as an adult not be able to do that for myself but instead need to make a GP appointment before seeing a nurse to check my ears to then be referred to audiology?
Same thing for continence services, one PCT I lived in it was a self referral service, this PCT it's a GP referral service. Again with this one why is it not also automatically linked into gynae? So you have your baby, they then put you on a list to get a letter 12-18 months later inviting you to a check up and advice service if you want to take them up you do if not no harm no foul. With that I wonder if a lot of things can be nipped in the bud with early physio intervention and also means again no embarrassing chat with the GP so possibly a higher uptake on the service.
There are other areas where this could be implemented too such as running clinics in the same manner as sexual health clinics - so diabetes, asthma and blood pressure checks could be run as self referral drop in services.
I realise a lot of this is probably finding restricted but you know when you have a thought and you want to mull it over?
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Normalisavariantofcrazy · 12/05/2014 20:23
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