Care Co-ordinator Role in Primary Care
Care Co-ordinators provide extra time, capacity and expertise to support patients in preparing for or in following up clinical conversations that they have with primary care professionals.
Care Co-ordinators provide extra time, capacity and expertise to support patients in preparing for or in following up clinical conversations that they have with primary care professionals.
They provide co-ordination and navigation for people and their carers across health and care services, alongside working closely with social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches and other primary care roles. They also support the coordination and delivery of MDTs within PCNs.
Ensuring seamless service provision significantly decreases the risk of the patient deteriorating and thereby reduces the overall cost of care and the likelihood that additional interventions will be needed in future.
In general practice the Care Co-ordinator’s salary can be negotiated, although there is a suggested starting salary of AFC Band 4 equivalent.
Care Co-ordinators can:
*The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) helps to measure the spectrum of knowledge, skills and confidence in patients and captures the extent to which people feel engaged and confident in taking care of their condition.
