The primary health care team

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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