GP Supportership matters for all
In the new-shape NHS just 5% of GPs will be leaders.
For the best service for patients, 100% must be supporters.
In the new world of GP-Led Commissioning, Supportership matters.
Ten top tips for GP Supportership
1. Remember continuity of care: it provides cost effective medicine
2. Speak with consultant colleagues: it reduces costs
3. Talk to neighbouring practices: share skills “knock for knock”
4. Join with others to provide services
5. Tell your patients what is happening: they will support you
6. Lobby hospital trusts to have a hotline: this will reduce costs
7. Share the burden of responsibility: “adopt” a pathway
8. No one of us alone is as good as all of us: together set up a local network of sub-expert GPs (Clinical Supportership) in your area
9. We are the architects of our future: ostriches will become extinct
10. Educate patients about their responsibility: the welfare of the NHS is in their hands