Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
London GPs are being advised to treat the Olympics like a bout of ?severe weather' and consider reducing appointments, closing surgeries or transferring patients to A&E in order to ride out the storm.
In a newsletter sent to reassure GPs, LMC leaders in an Olympic borough have advised practices that they will have to draw up detailed plans in order to be ?Games ready' for the summer.
The plans include reducing routine appointments, offering more telephone advice, being flexible about prescriptions and ensuring that the practice is fully stocked up before the start of the Games.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...ents-and-send-patients-to-a-e-during-olympics
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In a newsletter sent to reassure GPs, LMC leaders in an Olympic borough have advised practices that they will have to draw up detailed plans in order to be ?Games ready' for the summer.
The plans include reducing routine appointments, offering more telephone advice, being flexible about prescriptions and ensuring that the practice is fully stocked up before the start of the Games.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...ents-and-send-patients-to-a-e-during-olympics
(free registration required)