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Better management of same-day appointments, frees up GP time and improves patient access From L-R: Sue Thomas, Sian Colnut, Mich Brooks, Mary West, Karen Carpenter, Fiona McDonald, Dr Philip Frost, Jeanette Banks, Dr Maree Burke, Jane McLeod, Brana King As part of becoming a Health Care Home, the...
Becoming an IFHS improves patient care and job satisfaction at Travis Medical Centre The results achieved by Travis Medical Centre in becoming an Integrated Family Health Service (IFHS) have been so good that IFHS project managers had to check and re-check the data to make absolutely sure it was cor...
Practice Partners Nobody and nothing in primary care operates in isolation — it’s the ultimate team environment. Clinical and business issues are interdependent and neither can be compromised without impacting upon quality and sustainability; all of the various professions that make up this dive...
Partnership with GPs is key to the 24 Hour Surgery Twenty eight years since it opened, the purpose of the 24 Hour Surgery remains the same - to support General Practitioners to deliver after hours care to their patients or provide support when they are at capacity in their own practices. “General...
The Annex at the 24 Hour Surgery The 24 Hour Surgery’s new Annex is providing additional clinical space during the Surgery’s busy periods. Operations Manager Claire McQuilken says The Annex at 933 Colombo Street opened in December 2014, with some staff concerned that the team would be split acro...
Acute Demand service impresses patient David Morgan When David Morgan's lacerated elbow became infected after a 2.5-metre fall onto a concrete floor, he received care and treatment from the Acute Demand service rather than needing to go to hospital. The North Canterbury man was at the building site...
Christchurch nurse working with Ebola patients Sahra and her colleague Edwin outside the Treatment Centre Nurse Sahra Ahmed said she didn’t do a lot of research about Ebola before she put up her hand and headed to Sierra Leone with the Red Cross. “What I saw in the media was very scary and I...
Meeting the Foundation Standard Pegasus Health started early in helping General Practice prepare for the upcoming Foundation Standard. All member practices will need to meet this standard by 1 July 2016. Effectively, it is like a warrant of fitness for General Practice, representing the minimum lega...
High St City Health prepares for Foundation Standard Sue Denton The team at High St City Health started looking at what they needed to do to meet the Foundation Standard in September last year. Practice Manager Sue Denton says Dr Mick Ozimek, who is Pegasus Health’s clinical leader for the Founda...
Getting it right in business With the Pegasus Health Board resolving that the organisation would not move into practice ownership and feedback from members indicating many wanted more assistance with managing the business side of their practices, Pegasus has been focused on providing further suppor...
