How do general practices manage requests from patients for 'same-day' appointments? A questionnaire survey.
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Vol. 51 (462) , 39-41
Abstract
Same-day appointment requests are common and can be problematic for general practices that run appointment systems. In a questionnaire survey sent to 90 general practices in one health authority area (response rate 88%), a variety of management systems existed for dealing with same-day appointment requests. Managing the requests was found to be a significant cause of stress for many general practitioners. Registrars, locums, and practice nurses play only a small part in meeting patient demands and few practices operate telephone triage to help manage these requests.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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