Medical Calibration Services | As healthcare policies continue to push for safer and higher quality care, GP practices have found themselves under increasing pressure. As a result, staff have to work harder, producing more with the same resource.
Working smarter is a strategy that seeks to create greater improvement from less workload (or at worst, the same workload). To achieve this, you’ll need to:
- Review and assess current procedures
- Commit time and resource to change
- Plan your support systems; including Medical Calibration Services
- Educate and train staff as needed
How To Create A Smarter Working Strategy
Create engagement through management-workforce partnership. Therefore, have your healthcare employees help to design new procedures and practices, test them, and offer ideas for improvement and implementation. Four key elements that your team must analyse are:
Communication
Smart strategies and methods can streamline communication between doctors, nurses, and other employees. One example being, an online platform for communication and recording of information; rather than complex filing systems. Consequently, this will reduce workload and increase real-time understanding of a patient’s needs and concerns. (Remember, the privacy of patient information must be observed, so different staff will have different access levels.)
Knowing The Patient
Healthcare in the UK is moving rapidly towards a more patient-centric approach, empowering patients to take greater responsibility for their health and the care and treatment they receive. Therefore, ensure that a patient’s healthcare goals are explored and recorded. This allows the GP to align care to those goals, reducing workload and improving the patient experience across the healthcare team.
Integrate With All Team Members
Access to healthcare information, patient records and treatment data is essential for working practice integration. In addition to this, technology is key to maintaining a strong team approach, enabling everyone to understand each other’s roles and the patient care plan.
Plan in Advance – Medical Calibration Services
Medical equipment testing is incredibly important and should be undertaken regularly. Therefore, the best course of action is to arrange an annual contract with a reliable specialist to look over devices. As a dedicated company, we offer trusted medical calibration services to a range of community-based organisations and hospitals. We are a fully UKAS assessed and ISO 9001:2008 accredited company, using state of the art equipment to implement thorough testing.