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Sturgeon, David 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-5762
(2017)
Convenience, quality and choice: Patient and service-provider perspectives for treating primary care complaints in urgent care settings.
International Emergency Nursing, 35.
pp. 43-50.
ISSN 1878-013X
Abstract
Aim: To investigate why patients chose to attend two, nurse-led, minor injury units (MIUs) to access primary healthcare services rather than attend their GP practice. Background: Since the 1980's, healthcare organisations in the UK and elsewhere have implemented an increasingly consumer-orientated model of healthcare provision. As a result, patients with non-urgent presentations are attending Emergency Departments (EDs) and other urgent care facilities in growing numbers. Methods: A comparative case study approach was adopted and between October 2014 and May 2015 the researcher was embedded as a participant observer as part of the emergency nurse practitioner team at two, nurse-led, MIUs (site A and B). During this time, 40 patients, 17 service-providers and 1 senior manager were interviewed. Results: Patients and service-providers at both sites identified convenience and quality of care as the principle reasons patients presented for primary healthcare services at MIUs rather than their GP practice. Service-providers were aware that by providing treatment, they established a precedent and a sense of expectation for future care. Conclusion: Patients are acting rationally and predictably in response to healthcare policy promises regarding choice, expectation created by service-providers, and local demographic factors.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2022 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 03:42 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/84609 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ienj.2017.06.005 |
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