At e-GPS, we support General Practice by:
- Developing efficient data management systems
- Enhancing your practice infrastructure
- Streamlining service provision
- Improving clinical outcomes
Why e-GPS?
GPS (Global Positioning System) is a device that operates by precisely locating your global position and assisting seamless travel from your starting point to your preferred destination.
At e-GPS, we help you gain better insight about your current practice performance, guide you with goal setting and support your practice's journey towards change and improvement.
Our blog
In keeping with current social media trends, we manage a blog instead of a website. Our blog is designed to bring you regular features, up-to-date news, links to current affairs in health as well as information about upcoming events that you and your team may be interested in.
At e-GPS, we decided to coincide our launch date with World Health Day. The 7th of April marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948.
World Health Day 2012
This year's World Health Day theme is healthy ageing.
The past century has seen remarkable improvements in life expectancy.
So much so that within the next five years the number of adults aged 65 years or over will outnumber children under the age of 5 years (for the first time in human history).
With this unprecedented ageing boom, general practitioners are managing a growing population of older patients with increasingly complex co-morbidities.
There is no simple "magic bullet" solution to the challenges of population ageing, but there are strategies that GPs and health professionals can promote now:
- Promoting good health and healthy behaviours at all ages to prevent or delay the development of chronic disease
- Minimising the consequences of chronic disease through early detection and quality care
- Reinventing ageing - debunking "ageist" stereotypes and drawing on the experience and wisdom of elders in our society
- Promoting physical and social environments that foster the health and participation of older people
Health assessments are an essential aspect of patient care and provide a platform for living a healthy life into old age.
The Health Assessment for people aged 75 years and over is an in-depth, annual assessment of older patients. It provides a structured way of identifying health issues and conditions that are potentially preventable.
In addition to assessing the person's health status, a health assessment can be used to identify factors that influence an older person's physical, psychologial and social functioning.
Click this link to download the Health Assessment Fact Sheet
Enhancing Your Practice
So too, your practice could do with a regular health assessment.
At e-GPS we can help you gain better insight about your current practice performance. We can assess the health of your practice, identify factors that influence the way your practice functions and guide and support the journey towards change and improvement.
You care for your ageing population, now it's time to care for your practice.
Contact e-GPS for a consultation today.
Happy World Health Day, 2012
from the team at e-GPS!
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