THURSDAY 12th JUNE – we are holding a Group Consultation information evening from 6pm. If you are Diabetic and have not yet had your annual health review, please come along to learn more about how a Group Consultation could replace part of your annual review.
At Mann Cottage we are very excited to be starting a new journey to deliver clinician led Group Consultations as an alternative to your normal one to one chronic disease annual review. We will be starting with the Diabetes annual review and intend to develop and grow to review more chronic diseases in this patient centric way.
To achieve person centred care, people need time and support to identify their needs and ask for help with what matters to them. Group clinics are a way to strengthen the patient voice because there are more patients than clinicians in the consultation. Group clinics can be delivered face to face or online.
To be able to personalise care, clinicians need more than the usual 10 minutes to ask and explore, “what matters to you right now about your health?” and “what are your health goals?”. These discussions also require a change in consulting behaviour; this is more easily achieved when a clinician moves out of the one to one consultation and into a group clinic setting. Clinicians initiate group clinics, with their clinic administrative team supporting the behind the scenes organisation.
Using an ‘ group clinic agreement’, patients are informed in advance they will be reviewed or supported together in a group setting and that relevant clinical information will be shared. Usually group clinics are run instead of one to one reviews.
Below is a couple of videos with patients talking about how Group Consultations have worked for them.
If you are invited to join a Group Consultation please give this option consideration. If you would like to know more before committing to join a Group Consultation please feel free to ask us.