Learning from each other
- Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 177, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 82-82
- Idioma: inglés
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IT can only have been a coincidence, but it's thought-provoking nonetheless. On July 13, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a programme called ‘One Health: the vet will see you now’, in which human GP Graham Easton argued that there are areas, particularly relating to service delivery, where doctors working in the NHS might usefully learn a thing or two from vets. Meanwhile, just a few days before, the Vet Futures website posted a blog by veterinary practitioners Erwin Hohn and Adi Nell suggesting that, rather than competing with each other, veterinary businesses should work more collaboratively, and share facilities and expertise.
In their blog, posted on July 8, Mr Hohn and Mr Nell do not go so far as to say that vets should model their services on those provided by the NHS. However, they do suggest a two-way system of referral whereby, for example, a referral centre might refer what turns out to be a non-complex case back to a general practice for treatment, or a general practice might refer dogs simply requiring vaccination to a vaccination clinic, thus allowing everyone to do what they do best. They make the point that ‘this is how many human community health programmes work all around the world....
