GP Leader: Telehealth, Home Visits & Chronic Care

Responsibilities

• Treat patients who are ill or believe that they might be ill
• Perform telephone consultations, telephone triage and online consultation as needed
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Perform home visits as agreed
• Work with other health care professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat long-term conditions, including non-drug-based treatment methods using a management plan, and in line with national and local policies and practice needs
• Conform to practice procedures for QOF, prescribing incentive schemes, PBC and other enhanced services and directives as stipulated by the National Bodies/ ICB or Tudor Surgery
• Complete referral letters as necessary for patients seen
• Review and sign repeat prescriptions as and when required
• Clinical Governance/Quality Assurance:
  Follow and contribute to protocols to achieve a high score on the Quality and Outcomes Framework
• Enhance current polices and procedures within the practice as required
• Ensure data is entered in an efficient and accurate manner on to the practice computer system
• Promote confidentiality (in line with Caldicott principles) within the practice
• Deal with non-NHS correspondence (such as life insurance, holiday cancellations and work related letters)
• Deal with pathology results communications from Out of Hours Service
• Ensure that repairs are performed to a high standard and in accordance with Health & Safety guidelines
• Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).