Multidisciplinary Team Working toolkit
Completion requirements
Expanding practice teams brings the opportunity to embed new skills into primary care, widens the range of services offered by general practice and works towards resolving some of the challenges currently faced in primary care.
Resources
- It is well worth reading Becky Malby’s managing demand blogs to consider some ideas about potential ways of reducing demand other than by using skill mix:
- Other useful ideas come from the Wessex primary care report 2017 from the Academic Health Services network:
- National Data England - GP data shows numbers and details of GPs, Nurses, Direct Patient Care and Admin/Non-Clinical staff working in General Practice in England, along with information on their practices, staff, patients, and the services they provide:
- General Practice Workforce, Final 30 September 2018, Experimental statistics
- General Practice Workforce Interactive dashboard
- The Wessex Primary Care Project provides workforce planning tools in their 2017 report:
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society:
- General practice based pharmacist
- A guide for GPs considering employing a practice pharmacist
- Professional indemnity requirements
- Working in Urgent & Emergency Care - a guide
- Working in GP Practices - a guide
- Pharmacists in GP Practices
- Primary Care Networks and Clinical Pharmacists
- Primary Care Networks and Community Pharmacists
- Polypharmacy: Getting our medicines right
- Medicines optimisation hub
- Multidisciplinary Teams (MDT) in General Practice: Making MDT work for Wales
- Royal College of Physicians
- The Bradford Effective Multidisciplinary Teams Development Tool, which includes sections on defining clarity of purpose.
- Technology Enabled Care Services, which provides research and evidence on TECS and the impact it had on patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness
- The King's Fund
- Skills for Health