95%
Patients will use our FCP over a GP or Nurse for MSK
95%
Patients will use our FCP over a GP or Nurse for MSK
First Contact Practitioners are incredibly important as they can provide relief for patients on waiting lists on waiting lists, save GP appointments and decrease reliance on long term pain medication. Patients don’t have to see the GP beforehand, they can book straight in to one of our FCPs. All of our musculoskeletal FCPs are physiotherapists with enhanced skills, they have the ability to help patients with musculoskeletal issues such as back, neck and joint pain by:
It's benefit is that it saves GP appointments, it gets people's problems sorted out. They just don't come back, they're not coming for sick notes, or pain medication. The contact with Sano Physiotherapy has been, in my opinion, excellent. In terms of fitting in, it's providing a service we didn't have before
Carl Foster
Clinical Director|Armley PCN
Fully integrated practitioners delivering success
It gives them a direct route straight into a more suitable practitioner. The tangible benefits for our business, is the GP clinician time that's saved, it's reduced the amount of pain medication patients are being prescribed, and we get really good feedback from patients.
Sinead Brannigan
Social Prescriber Manager | Armley PCN
