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What
If …???
The National Policy Framework
• Modernisation agenda• Consumerism, design quality,
sustainability• To enhance the patient’s
experience of healthcare
The NHS Plan
• To upgrade GP premises and create one-stop primary care centres
• Greater integration of primary and community, social services
• Pay attention to the comfort and convenience of patients
• Emphasis on privacy and dignity
Health Policy
• 3000 GP premises, 500 one-stop shops
• Millions more outpatients to be seen in primary care
• Advancing medical technology• Wider range of expertise in
primary care• Existing premises are insufficient
Primary Care Trust
Local Authorities
General Practitioners
Dentists
Opticians
Pharmacists
Allied HealthProfessionals
Diagnosticians
Volunteers
Job / advice centres
Midwives
Social Workers
Therapists
Nurses
Counselling & advice
Carers
Physical fitness/ leisure
Podiatrists
Ambulance services
Police
Link to schools
Chiropractors
Retail / commercial
Patient & Patient & FamilyFamily
One-stop shops
The result
• Greater integration • Benefit (i.e. welfare advice) services• Improvements to patients’ health and
social circumstances• Economic regenerationThis needs:Premises with capacity and innovative
design
Related providers
• NHS Direct (24 hours a day)• Walk-in Centres and Minor Injury
Centres (with interactive video links with A & E)
“However care is accessed patients should be viewed as customers with their needs put before those of the healthcare providers”
Privacy and dignity
• Reception• Consultation• Examination• Treatment
With particular attention for the increasing numbers of elderly managing chronic conditions
Other issues
• The development of patient pathways
• Facilities not being developed in isolation
• Grouping of single handed GPs• The development and updating of
the SSDP
Changing roles
• Nurses taking on GP tasks• Lifestyle changes (health promotion)• Social group fostering activities• GPs with special interests• Specialist outreach care• Telemedicine (teleradiology and
telepathology)• Near patient testing – smaller and more
automated equipment
Our role• To be aware and sensitive to this agenda• To fulfil the criteria for design quality and
sustainability as set out in AEDET and the CABE vision
• To understand the consumerism agenda• To create non-institutional & healing
environments• To radically improve the patient journey• Link design to patient recovery
To put one brick upon another. Philip Larkin
To put one brick upon another,Add a third and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether,What you do has any worth.
But to sit with bricks around youWhile the winds of heaven bawlWeighing what you should or can doLeaves no doubt of it at all
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VISION
for theFUTURE