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Describing team development within a novel GP-led urgent care centre model : a qualitative study
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Morton, Sarah, Ignatowicz, Agnieszka, Gnani, Shamini, Majeed, Azeem and Greenfield, Geva (2016) Describing team development within a novel GP-led urgent care centre model : a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 6 (6). e010224. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010224 ISSN 2044-6055.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010224
Abstract
Objective:
Urgent care centres (UCCs) co-located within an emergency department were developed to reduce the numbers of inappropriate emergency department admissions. Since then various UCC models have developed, including a novel general practitioner (GP)-led UCC that incorporates both GPs and emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs). Traditionally these two groups do not work alongside each other within an emergency setting. Although good teamwork is crucial to better patient outcomes, there is little within the literature about the development of a team consisting of different healthcare professionals in a novel healthcare setting. Our aim was therefore to describe staff members' perspectives of team development within the GP-led UCC model.
Design:
Open-ended semistructured interviews, analysed using thematic content analysis.
Setting:
GP-led urgent care centres in two academic teaching hospitals in London.
Participants:
15 UCC staff members including six GPs, four ENPs, two receptionists and three managers.
Results:
Overall participants were positive about the interprofessional team that had developed and recognised that this process had taken time. Hierarchy within the UCC setting has diminished with time, although some residual hierarchical beliefs do appear to remain. Staff appreciated interdisciplinary collaboration was likely to improve patient care. Eight key facilitating factors for the team were identified: appointment of leaders, perception of fair workload, education on roles/skill sets and development of these, shared professional understanding, interdisciplinary working, ED collaboration, clinical guidelines and social interactions.
Conclusions:
A strong interprofessional team has evolved within the GP-led UCCs over time, breaking down traditional professional divides. Future implementation of UCC models should pro-actively incorporate the eight facilitating factors identified from the outset, to enable effective teams to develop more quickly.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Emergency medical services -- Great Britain, Primary care (Medicine) -- Great Britain -- Evaluation, Communication in emergency medicine -- Great Britain -- Research, Physicians (General practice) -- Great Britain -- Attitudes, Nurse practitioners -- Great Britain -- Attitudes | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BMJ Open | ||||||||
Publisher: | BMJ | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2044-6055 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 6 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 9 | ||||||||
Article Number: | e010224 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010224 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Description: | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/7/e010224corr1 |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 September 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 September 2018 |
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