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funding has been made available for an additional research assistant, whose remit is to go out and meet GPs in the community. “Another focus group meeting was held in June 2013, which raised some interesting findings and challenged assumptions. For example, many community staff are still confused by the term ‘point-of-care testing’ and consider these investigations to be ‘near-patient testing’, even though they are actually one and the same. Also, we assume that the introduction of POCT improves patient care by preventing repeated visits to the GP; however, it seems that many patients prefer to return for the reassurance this gives them over their treatment.
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
“In the long-term, however, we hope to be
able to repeat this model across the entire UK, but first we need to perform some follow-up interviews to fill in any gaps in our knowledge,
‘Attitudes vary among GPs towards POCT deployment, and many are extremely sceptical about its benefits’
48 31 21 Yes No Don’t know General attitudes to POCT: considering POCT in the future?
after which we can continue with the development and implementation of our training in selected pilot sites. This will allow us to assess the effectiveness of our training and of practitioner and patient satisfaction. We also intend to create another focus group comprising a GP, nurse practitioner, practice manager and healthcare assistants, who can advise us on ongoing POCT requirements, training priorities and communications.” One area Simon is particularly excited about is the potential for new methods of training delivery: “MMU has an excellent facility for the in-house development of eLearning and Apps for smart phones and tablets within its Digi-Labs facility, and one is already in the pipeline and will become part of the service to support and endorse the POC
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training programme. Additionally, we hope to roll out new online training modules and competence assessments. Our longer-term objective is to provide embedded POC training courses, resulting in more employable graduates. We also plan to use the knowledge gained to develop undergraduate and postgraduate MMU courses providing CPD for all, which could be offered on various health- related courses at MMU and also other universities. Vitally important, however, is that we
engage with the new CCGs, local clinical leads and commissioners to ensure POCT training is offered as a fully commissioned service.” A report is currently being written on this
‘proof of concept’ project, which will describe the future service offering. Subject to NHS and university support, it is hoped to implement a full new service in 2014/15. Planning is already underway for a symposium at MMU in early 2014 to outline a clear business plan for future service delivery, after which we will be hearing more from Simon and his colleagues at Metro-POCT.
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