General practitioner association Domus Medica and Wachtposten Vlaanderen are launching twenty proposals with which they want to make care outside office hours, and by extension non-plannable care, “more integrated and future-proof”. For example, they argue for a more uniform triage system across emergency services and guard posts.
Anyone who becomes ill during the weekend or at night can go to the on-call GP. However, they have to process more and more calls, which has increased the pressure on non-plannable care. This is also noticeable in the emergency services, which are seeing more and more patients.
Domus Medica and Wachtposten Vlaanderen therefore believe that an unambiguous approach is urgently needed for primary and secondary care. With twenty proposals, they are already making a first step towards a better healthcare system.
One of their key points is the development of a more uniform triage system across emergency services and guard posts. There are different systems in use today and they should be more coordinated, it sounds.
The assigned level of care must then also be “binding for the patient, so that the right care can be provided at the right place and at the right time,” the organizations believe. “Patients who receive ‘urgently in need of care from a GP’ as a triage outcome automatically receive a digital triage code with which they can make an appointment at the waiting post,” the reasoning goes.
Home visits
Furthermore, Domus Medica and Wachtposten Vlaanderen advocate, among other things, that every triage is logged and accessible to healthcare providers and patients and that additional transport modalities should be developed for non-plannable care. Finally, they want home visits outside office hours to no longer be arranged via individual GP out-of-hours but via central management.
Domus Medica and Wachtposten Vlaanderen developed their vision for the future together with a group of experts, consisting of representatives of general practitioners, pharmacists, emergency services, academics and other partners. They also submitted the text to, among others, the guard post boards, employees and representatives of the three doctors’ syndicates.
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2024-02-21 13:31:59
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