📄 | Registered patients may be from far-off places

| Registered patients may be from far-off places

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• Registered patients may be from far-off places
• Poor documentation of patient contact details • Lack of telephone facilities in clinics and nurses’ concerns relating to the usage of personal phones for making calls to patient. To ensure that patients do not miss the follow-up or referral visit, it is important to ensure that specified drugs and diagnostic services are available at the respective health facilities, NCD services are available at the health facilities (SHC/SHC-AAM ) closer to community, patient is well counselled and provided right information during the consultation at the health facility, patient’s details are correctly documented in the treatment card, and patient-centred care is provided. ABHA ID generation and seeding. Solutions/ strategies to address the challenges in referral and follow up: • Specific strategies for improving referral linkages, such as teleconsultation services through e-Sanjeevani between AAMs and secondary/tertiary care centers may be Introduced. The workflow, and model of teleconsultation used at AAMs may be clearly explained, or demonstrated through a diagrammatic representation. • Ensure medicines for NCD care by effective stock and inventory management • Ensure diagnostics to enhance NCD screenings and early diagnosis. • Expanding and referral to higher facilities by leveraging schemes like PMJAY to ensure better access to care. • Emphasize home visits by frontline workers (ASHA, ANMs and CHOs) for elderly and palliative/bedridden patients. NCD Screening and treatment at regular camps and outreach sessions. -- 70 of 136 -- 59 Training Module for Medical Officers Population based screening and NCD services available at different levels of public health facilities Patient-centred care A patient-centred approach is “pr…