Leading towards Health for All
Creating Synergies between Public Health and Primary Care
Keywords: QBS development and auditing, Primary Care health centers, mentorship for family doctors, development plan for primary care until 2035, building patient safety culture in family medicine
Introduction:
Qua vadis, primary care medicine in Estonia?
Imperceptibly the coronavirus-pandemic years have passed and life seems to be as normal as possible. Where are we and what has been done in these years in Estonian family medicine?
In my presentation I will try to give You an overview of things happened in Estonian family medicine, the main acitivities of Estonian Society of Family Doctors (ESFD).
Method:
overview - what is done?
Results:
1.There are 60 PC Health Centers for 01.01.2023, appr. 62000 patient get their service in them.
2. The QBS has changed and auditing of all practices started in 2022. All the practices and primary care health centers will be audited for the end of 2023 .
3. Mentorship for family doctors was started in 2021 and continued in 2022. 19 pairs of mentee - mentors were meeting eaach other in 2022.
4. Implementation plan for Quality Guide for Estonian Family Doctors was made in 2021.
5. Building the patient safety culture started.
6. Development plan „ Primary Care until 2035“ is started in 2022 and in process.
Conclusions:
The life goes on in family medicine in Estonia. And so do we.
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EQuiP is open to both Individual and Organizational Memberships. EQuiP offers a platform to improve the knowledge base and to improve closer collaboration between GPs / Family Doctors, researchers, educators, policy makers and organisations involved in quality and safety in family medicine and primary care.
