Aberdeen’s Integration Joint Board has agreed a new primary care plan, designed to improve patient services and reduce GP workloads.
The aim of the plan is to pass some of GPs’ increasing workload to other health and care professionals. Directing patients to, for example, a suitably qualified nurse, pharmacist, allied health professional or link worker will free up family doctors’ time to focus on the more challenging health conditions. It will also give patients better and more direct access to the health and care professional best able to deal with their condition.
Initial funding projections propose that some £13.8 million is invested in delivering the Primary Care Improvement Plan (PCIP)over the next four years.
The PCIP is in line with new GP contract which came into effect earlier this year, which will see a range of additional health professionals recruited over the next three years to relieve GP workloads and help to address the recruitment and retention challenges faced by general practice.
