Within PCN3 we have a range of general and specialist care coordinators, providing a wide range of service to patients within our GP surgeries.
Our care coordinator workstreams include:
- Arranging annual health and wellbeing reviews for patients with learning disabilities and severe mental illness.
- Supporting patients with non-diabetic hypoglycaemia with brief intervention and referral to the NHS national diabetes prevention programme.
- Contacting patients who are eligible for NHS weight management programmes and referring where appropriate to further services.
- Supporting with COVID-19 vaccinations, including coordinating the housebound programme and working in our vaccine hubs.
- Calling patients who have not attending cancer screening, to offer appointments and increase cancer screening uptake.
- Supporting practices by contacting patients to invite them for targeted immunisation programmes, such as: polio catch-up campaign, MMR catch-up, pneumococcal and shingle vaccinations. Which are all delivered in a vaccine hub setting.
- Supporting practices in delivering a long term condition model of care.
- Supporting patients in conversations regarding urgent care plans.
- Supporting patients with cancer and coordinating care reviews.
