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Home » News » Leighton Buzzard Public Update – December 2023
In our last update on work in Leighton Buzzard, we were pleased to confirm that a “focus group” style event would be held in the town in early November with attendance from residents on the town’s Patient Participation Groups, voluntary and community sector organisations, and elected representatives. The ICB was pleased to host this event on 09 November at the Astral Park Sports and Community Centre, and to be joined by circa 40 attendees, including local MP Andrew Selous.
The main points of the event included:
Below follows a fuller update on this work:
The ICB has also secured additional space at Leighton Buzzard Health Centre for the PCN to use. The focus for this space will be implementing a same day access service, and it will also be utilised for additional respiratory diagnostics clinics, phlebotomy clinics and asthma medication clinics.
Some discussion on 09 November focussed on the different terms and language. We understand this can be unclear, and we hope the table below is therefore of use.
Key Terms | |
General Practice | A multi-disciplinary healthcare team, led by a general practitioner (doctor), in the community providing a range of services |
Primary Care | Includes general practice (GPs) optometry, dentists, community pharmacy, 111, urgent treatment centres, and urgent GP clinics. These are usually the first step for the population in accessing health services. |
Primary Care Networks | Groups of practices working together to deliver a scaled primary care offer – where it is efficient & effective to do so – to the population. |
Same day primary care | Provision of primary care services/appointments, to meet patient need, and delivered by a range of health and care professionals. |
Urgent Care | Urgent care involves any non-life-threatening illness or injury needing urgent attention which might be dealt with by phone consultation through the NHS111 Clinical Assessment Service, pharmacy advice, out-of-hours GP appointments, and/or referral to an urgent treatment centre (UTC). |
Emergency Care | Emergency care involves life-threatening illnesses or accidents which require immediate treatment from services including the ambulance, service (via 999) and an emergency department (A&E). |
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board, December 2023
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