GP Health Assessment

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical Responsibilities:-

- In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self

available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations

and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with

queries, paperwork, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion.

- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self referred or referred from other health care workers within the organization.

- Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.

- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.

- In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols,

developing care plans for health.

- Providing counselling and health education.

- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as

appropriate.

- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

- Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements.

- Delivering enhanced services.

- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written

prescriptions whenever possible).

- Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is

clinically appropriate.

- In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities

associated with a GP working within primary care.

Confidentiality:-

- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive

information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the

right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access

to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare

workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business

organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the

Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and

procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.