Commissioning for Quality: Community-based Rheumatology Service
19 October 2018, 12.30 – 1.30
The webinar will outline how a community-based rheumatology service can provide effective management of rheumatology patients, with benefits both to the patients and the usage of clinical resources. The service is commissioned by the CCG and GPs from participating practices refer directly into the community service.
The service was initially established in 2009 by a GPWSI who had 10 years plus working in a secondary care rheumatology service as a clinical assistant, together with a nurse consultant in rheumatology with over 20 years’ experience.
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Findings from the pilot study demonstrated that patients requiring disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDS) can easily be managed in a community setting. A community setting with provision of the specialist skills provides patients with local, more convenient care and reduced disengagement. It also optimised the use of local resources – for example, moving some of the routine follow-up activity for rheumatology patients (such as drug monitoring) would undercut the tariff by 30%. Patients see the most appropriate member of the healthcare team allowing more effective management of their condition and freeing up specialist rheumatologists for more acute cases.
The service now has three GPwSI, one extended scope physiotherapy practitioner, two nurse consultants and a clinical nurse specialist, as well as six consultant sessions per month plus two full-time administrators.
Who should attend? Commissioners, GPs, clinicians working in rheumatology services.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n_tjNS2WS_KiNKeSstLDEw
Presenter:
Erica Gould, Nurse Consultant at Community Rheumatology Service Modality Partnership