“In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught”- Baba Dioum
PHD has a long history of successful collaboration with hospitals and the professionals who work there.
This has meant providing a range of ‘hospital’ services in our local health centres instead. This benefits patients because they don’t have to travel to get their treatment and it offers a stimulating and rewarding working environment, for clinical and non-clinical staff, able to develop specialist skills and services.
We provide a wide range of clinical services at our practices, funded through the different contracts we have with our local PCTs. The variety of clinics on offer means that, for many of our patients, their local practice is a ‘one-stop shop’ for all their healthcare needs.
That’s good for patients, healthcare staff and PCTs because it means a more responsive and cost-effective service – allowing further investment for developing new services.
So what does this mean in reality?
Here is a list of the services on offer:
Personal Medical Services (PMS)
The regular or traditional services offered by GPs and practice nurses. These include:
GP clinics
ANP clinics
Ante-natal clinic
Baby clinic
Asthma clinic
Cardio vascular disease (CVD)
Family planning
Flu
Phlebotomy
Smear clinics
Travel (immunisations)
New patient registration checks
PMS-Plus/ Enhanced Services
The provision of extended services to meet the specific needs of the community.
Acupuncture
Alternative therapies
Anti-coagulation
Aquarius
Bowel & bladder
Chiropody
Chaplaincy
Counselling
Diabetes clinic
Disease modifying anti-rheumatic
DMARD (Near patient testing)
Enhanced Services
Minor Surgery
Flu & Pneumococcal immunisation
Child immunisations
Drug & Alcohol Misuse
Extended Opening
MMR jabs
Osteoporosis
Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS)
These services offer a way of delivering services in a different, innovative way to offer better patient choice, improved access and even greater responsiveness to local people’s needs.
We run an APMS contract, providing healthcare for homeless people, refugees and
asylum seekers through initiatives like the Greenfields contracts.