Effects of missing a doctors appointment
Effects of missing a Doctors appointment
No-shows are a problem for both doctors and patients.
When a patient misses a doctor/nurse appointment, a follow-up or specialist appointment they are not receiving the care recommended by their doctor/nurse. This could result in the patient becoming more ill and requiring additional time off work, laying an extra burden on colleagues and bosses, there is also the risk of infecting others thus carrying additional burdens as more staff may require time of work or extra appointments. All of this holds a risk of missing deadlines, looking unprofessional and potentially disrupting the training of personnel on unit.
Missing an appointment can also mean missing vital treatment, diagnosis or monitoring, and may lead to long term health problems.
It is particularly crucial at DISC as this is predominately a training unit, and a trainee having to wait longer for an appointment could be detrimental to their training thus having a knock on effect to other course members and instructors. But also if it was the instructor that couldn 't get an appointment again this could hinder training.
On military units the doctors play a pivotal role in so many aspects of military out put, they play a part in Out of Area Preps, referrals to Physio, referrals to specialists and diagnosis. The doctors play a big part in keeping us operationally fit which contributes massively to the bigger picture.
Missing an appointment could have a knock on effect to every aspect of military life, yourself may become a burden, you could infect others making them a burden, which could result in loss of training. You may not be operationally fit to meet your duties, someone else then may be asked to step in for you, but then someone will have to step up to full fill their duties. And as you see it can go round and round in a viscous circle. And in this current climate with all 3 forces being reduced massively we are already massively stretched for manpower, we
No-shows are a problem for both doctors and patients.
When a patient misses a doctor/nurse appointment, a follow-up or specialist appointment they are not receiving the care recommended by their doctor/nurse. This could result in the patient becoming more ill and requiring additional time off work, laying an extra burden on colleagues and bosses, there is also the risk of infecting others thus carrying additional burdens as more staff may require time of work or extra appointments. All of this holds a risk of missing deadlines, looking unprofessional and potentially disrupting the training of personnel on unit.
Missing an appointment can also mean missing vital treatment, diagnosis or monitoring, and may lead to long term health problems.
It is particularly crucial at DISC as this is predominately a training unit, and a trainee having to wait longer for an appointment could be detrimental to their training thus having a knock on effect to other course members and instructors. But also if it was the instructor that couldn 't get an appointment again this could hinder training.
On military units the doctors play a pivotal role in so many aspects of military out put, they play a part in Out of Area Preps, referrals to Physio, referrals to specialists and diagnosis. The doctors play a big part in keeping us operationally fit which contributes massively to the bigger picture.
Missing an appointment could have a knock on effect to every aspect of military life, yourself may become a burden, you could infect others making them a burden, which could result in loss of training. You may not be operationally fit to meet your duties, someone else then may be asked to step in for you, but then someone will have to step up to full fill their duties. And as you see it can go round and round in a viscous circle. And in this current climate with all 3 forces being reduced massively we are already massively stretched for manpower, we