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KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE REPORTS FROM THE SHOW
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: MEETING THE
CHALLENGES THROUGH MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORKING
Multi-disciplinary work is key to the future sustainability of the NHS. Primary care is no longer synonymous with general practice as
community pharmacy, eye and hearing care, community nursing and broader disciplines such as physio and occupational therapy
step forward to play a greater and vital role in patient care.
Agenda for the workforce development session:
1
How does multidisciplinary
working support screening,
early detection and
prevention?
Discussion led by: Nick Kaye,
community pharmacist, NK
Pharmacy and representative,
Pharmacy Voice and Raj Patel,
community pharmacist, Mount
Elgon Pharmacy and
representative, Pharmacy
Voice
Report summary
Issues around establishing
multidisciplinary teams and effective
use of data sharing remain the key
challenge to setting up
multidisciplinary working, participants
at the Health+Care Show Knowledge
exchange breakout sessions said.
Meeting at a session on “Workforce
Development: meeting the
challenges of multi-disciplinary
working,’ participants said sharing
data between organisations
remained an issue.
Participants said health professionals
could feel threatened by being on
“their territory”.
However participants agreed that
putting patients at the centre of care
planning and making better use of the
workforce the health system already
has is essential.
Nick Kay a communit