From training for issuing referrals to specialists, adult personal physicians of the General Health System (GHS) are undergoing seminars during this period, responding to the call of the Health Insurance Organization (HIO) and participating in the relevant seminars organized for this purpose.As explained to philenews by the director of the GHS, Efi Kamitsi, \u201csince last year, the organization had proceeded with the preparation of clinical referral guidelines concerning 21 health conditions\/diagnoses. The referral guidelines include specific indications for when a personal physician refers to a specialist and when not.\u201d\u201cThe clinical referral guidelines,\u201d she explained, \u201cserve as a support tool for adult personal physicians for implementing proper clinical practice rules and aim to create a common reference point for adult personal physicians regarding the issuance of referrals to specialist doctors.\u201dIn simple terms, they provide guidance to personal physicians on when to refer, which symptoms and indications should lead them to make a referral, and so forth.Meanwhile, Kamitsi said, \u201cwe have also proceeded with categorizing referrals into \u2018urgent\u2019 and \u2018routine\u2019 (as part of the effort to reduce waiting lists) and therefore, we are now conducting training for personal physicians on both when to refer a patient to a specialist and when a case is considered urgent and an urgent referral is issued and when not. We must of course mention that the clinical referral guidelines that have been implemented also include when a case is considered urgent and requires immediate management.\u201dThe educational seminars, Kamitsi said, have started since yesterday and will continue until June. They are conducted online and include 5 thematic units offered on two different dates per unit. Each lecture lasts for 1.5 hours.For their participation in these seminars, physicians also receive accreditation, which is subsequently counted (within the framework of the corresponding quality criterion applied) and contributes to their compensation.Parallel to the process of training adult personal physicians, GHS, \u201cin collaboration with the scientific societies of specialist doctors, is trying to prepare clinical referral guidelines for other health conditions\/diagnoses as well as to enrich the guidelines that have already been prepared with more indications, if deemed necessary by our physicians.\u201dIn conclusion, she emphasized that the referral guidelines currently being implemented were prepared in collaboration with personal physicians and the assistance of other experts.referral guidelines. clinical referral guidelines, adult personal physicians, training<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Adult personal physicians of the General Health System (GHS) are undergoing training for issuing referrals to specialists, as organized by the Health Insurance Organization (HIO). The training is based on clinical referral guidelines prepared for 21 health conditions\/diagnoses, providing specific indications for when to refer to a specialist. These guidelines aim to support proper clinical practice and create a common reference for issuing referrals. The training also covers categorizing referrals as ‘urgent’ or ‘routine’ to reduce waiting lists, with guidance on when urgent referrals are needed. The seminars, which started recently and will continue until June, are conducted online and include 5 thematic units. Physicians receive accreditation for participating, which contributes to their compensation. The GHS is also working to prepare and enrich clinical referral guidelines for additional health conditions in collaboration with specialist doctors’ scientific societies. The current guidelines were prepared with input from personal physicians and other experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2662,2661,946,725,210,148,1358,114,1731],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-adult-personal-physicians","tag-clinical-referral-guidelines","tag-doctors","tag-ghs","tag-health","tag-local","tag-support","tag-top-news","tag-training"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n