GP informed about hospital patient surgery catch-up plan

According to the NHS England, the GP will be contacted by the hospital about plans to deal with patients awaiting surgery.

Patients on the waiting list will be “given the option of undergoing surgery / treatment (if needed) or postponing it,” NHS England said.

The project, which contacts patients by October 23, said it was “not an exercise to reduce the number of waiting lists.”

As part of the “third stage” of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus, the hospital Asked last month Review the waiting list for selective surgery and “clinically prioritize” – with additional guidance on diagnostic prioritization and outpatient appointments to follow.

The NHS England, in its latest GP email bulletin, requires hospitals to contact all patients “by authorized routes” to establish a “favorable next step” and notify patients’ GP practice of the results. Said.

The bulletin states: ‘The priority is to contact all patients on the hospitalization route by October 23, 2020 to establish hope for the desired next step.

“Patient general practitioners are informed of the outcome of discussions about their procedures.”

“This project focuses on making the best mutually agreed decisions regarding the treatment of patients, not an exercise to reduce the number of waiting lists.”

With new guidance Regarding the hospital announced last week, the NHS England said the hospital needs to check the patient’s condition and establish “additional risk factors” and hope for treatment.

They also need to allow patients to postpone surgery, but they need to remain on the waiting list and provide “good communication” with patients, caregivers, and general practitioners.

It said:’Most long-awaited patients on the surgical waiting list will agree to receive surgical treatment before the coronavirus pandemic begins. Since then, the situation of many people may have changed as a result of a pandemic or other factors, and some patients have now changed their minds about undergoing surgery or postponed this until the end of the pandemic. You may want to.

“Similarly, the condition of some people may have changed and they may not have wanted to inform their GPs or experts.”

He added: ‘Patients can choose to have surgery / treatment (if needed) or postpone it if they prefer to wait. Patients are also offered alternative treatment options as needed.

However, GP leaders warned of “barriers” to effective collaboration between primary and secondary care in dealing with the “care backlog.”

so New report The BMA, announced last week, said: Introduction of cancer.

“Before Covid, the NHS was already struggling to deal with increased activity, capacity constraints, and financial pressure, but to deal with the unavoidable untreated portion of care that occurred after March. We are facing a big and difficult struggle. ”

However, it presents high workloads, the need to adapt physical space to prevent the spread of infection, lack of integrated IT, lack of historical workforce, and “lack of consistent communication and trust”. Different parts of the healthcare system that emphasized “the number of existing barriers” including.

The main recommendations for the report are:

• Gather local clinicians to establish a local approach to how to review and process referral backlogs to help achieve effective prioritization.
• To electronic prescribing to create a locally agreed co-prescription budget, make it easier for secondary care clinicians to issue prescriptions using local pharmacies, and reduce the workload of GPs Open access.And
• Further CCG test runs of local-based services for blood tests, ECG, vital capacity measurements, ultrasound, or other diagnostic services within the community. This allows clinicians to schedule these tests and monitor their results regardless of their work environment.

As the NHS England revealed last week that the GP will soon be able to refer patients directly to diagnostic tests. Community diagnostic hub..

Researchers New diagnosis The percentage of primary care general conditions has been halved during a pandemic – when the patient comes forward, it leads to a potential “rebound” of the workload.

And NHS England said last month that the GP should use it. Advice and guidance A service that keeps patients away from the hospital.

On the other hand, GP is said that patients may need to Redo blood testFollowing the news, broken by the pulse the doctor said Send only “urgent” tests Go to the lab in the “national shortage of reagents”.