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Health education leaders to trial GP admin assistants
HEE suggested that current healthcare assistants could undertake additional training to perform ‘patient sensitive’ administrative tasks.
GP academic Professor Martin Roland championed the use of alternative health professionals to relieve the 11 per cent of GP time spent on administrative tasks. Roland promoted the ideas in the Primary Care Workforce Commission’s The future of primary care: creating teams for tomorrow.
RCGP chair Dr Maureen Baker has petitioned that the government ‘urgently’ implement the new role as short-term support while practices struggle with the ongoing workforce crisis.
HEE medical director Professor Wendy Reid said: “There are some American models, and there are some models here where health care assistants have taken on quite significant, patient sensitive administration.
“There’s a big piece of work to be done there, and we’ve started that. We’ve funded someone to work with us at the RCGP, because we fundamentally think this is about GPs defining what is needed.”
Reid also suggested that healthcare assistants could work towards achieving care certificates to enable them to take on greater responsibilities.
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