What is it about?
Group consultations have been used in practice for over a decade; however, evidence of its use for children and young people is limited. Sara Nelson and Georgina Craig explore their effectiveness in paediatric respiratory reviews across three London practices Group consultations have been recognised as an effective way of delivering planned care and reviews of adult patients for a number of years. They improve the experience of care for both patients and staff. This project sought to establish if group consultations could be used in the care of children and young people and their families within three community settings. This small study demonstrated a positive impact for both clinicians and patients and highlighted the opportunities group consultations create to provide more holistic, integrated care by applying this new model of care delivery.
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Why is it important?
The NHS and primary care in particular is under significant workforce pressures and this is an innovative way to bring some joy back into the practice setting and maximise the effectiveness of care delivery. It also helps develop peer support and self management skills for the children and their families
Perspectives
This was a positive piece of practice improvement that can be effectively rolled out to other areas of children and young peoples care both for different disease areas bit also different settings. It would work equally as well in the secondary or tertiary care setting
Mrs Sara J Nelson
Guys and St Thomas
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This page is a summary of: How group consultations are changing respiratory care, Practice Nursing, February 2019, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/pnur.2019.30.3.136.
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