William Hollingworth, Nouf S Gadah-Jeynes, Hazel Taylor, Kirsty Garfield, Sarah Voss, Matthew Booker
{"title":"Paramedic or GP consultations in primary care: prospective study comparing costs and outcomes.","authors":"William Hollingworth, Nouf S Gadah-Jeynes, Hazel Taylor, Kirsty Garfield, Sarah Voss, Matthew Booker","doi":"10.3399/BJGP.2024.0469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0469","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>General Practice faces pressures due to increased demand and a shortage of GPs. Paramedics in General Practice (PGPs), increasingly contribute to managing minor illnesses, conducting home visits, and providing urgent consultations.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>Explore the impact of paramedic-consultations on patient-reported experience, safe management and NHS costs.</p><p><strong>Design & setting: </strong>Prospective cohort study comparing PGP with GP consultations at 34 GP sites in England.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Eligible participants had a consultation with a PGP (25 PGP sites) or GP (9 non-PGP sites) between May 2022 and February 2023. Questionnaires were provided after the initial consultation and 30 days later. Questionnaires assessed patient experience, outcomes and perceived safety (PCOQ and PREOS-PC), quality of life (EQ-5D-5L) and health care use.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 715 participants recruited, 489 completed the 30-day questionnaire. We found no evidence that PGP-consultations resulted in greater improvement/deterioration in patient-reported health and wellbeing; confidence in health provision; health knowledge; or confidence in the health plan over the 30-day period. However, the PGP group reported lower confidence in health provision, poorer perceptions of practice engagement in safety promotion and more communication problems with staff immediately after the initial consultation. Patients receiving PGP-consultations reported fewer GP appointments during the 30-day period, however savings to the NHS were offset by higher use of other healthcare professionals.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Well-designed training and supervision are needed to ensure PGPs have the right knowledge and can clearly convey health care plans to patients. While PGPs may reduce GP workload pressure, they do not necessarily reduce NHS costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142633294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiovascular disease - risk assessment and reduction: NICE 2023 update for GPs.","authors":"Emily Williams, Thomas Round, Nicholas R Jones","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739905","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739905","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"523-526"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526735/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CGRP therapy in primary care for migraine: prevention and acute medication.","authors":"Katherine Phillips, Benjamin R Wakerley","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739893","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739893","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"521-522"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526754/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging the status quo: deprescribing antihypertensive medication in older adults in primary care.","authors":"James P Sheppard, Richard J McManus","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739689","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739689","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"484-486"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526736/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eleanor Barry, David Blane, Jamie Ross, Jenifer Freeman
{"title":"Conversations matter: improving the diagnosis experience for people with type 2 diabetes.","authors":"Eleanor Barry, David Blane, Jamie Ross, Jenifer Freeman","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739713","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"489-490"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526759/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primary care health professionals' approach to clinical coding: a qualitative interview study.","authors":"Peter G Davies","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739737","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"492"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526760/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are good GPs holistic?","authors":"Andrew Papanikitas","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739749","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"503"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526743/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Books: <i>The Story of a Heart</i>: Two remarkable families.","authors":"Trisha Greenhalgh","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739857","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739857","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"514"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526750/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do I know you? (well enough to complete your multisource feedback … ).","authors":"Paula Wright","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739821","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"510-511"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526755/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General practice should tackle healthcare inequalities but not health inequalities.","authors":"Dipesh Gopal","doi":"10.3399/bjgp24X739833","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp24X739833","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"74 748","pages":"512"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526745/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}