If there is no way a practice can give patients timely appointments, then it makes sense to focus on offering safe telephone triage, to determine which patients need to be seen sooner, rather than ...

Telephone triage has emerged as a pivotal component in modern primary care services, streamlining patient management and improving the allocation of healthcare resources. By enabling trained ...

If you are a nurse looking to make money from home, you might consider getting involved in telephone triage. There are companies nationwide that are continually on the lookout for qualified nurses to ...

Objective To compare the workloads of general practitioners and nurses and costs of patient care for nurse telephone triage and standard management of requests for same day appointments in routine ...

Objectives: To examine the perceptions that those working in primary care have about the purpose and impact that telephone triage by nurses may have on their clinical roles and identities. Methods: ...

People who feel ill but are unsure whether to wait to seek treatment, head to the emergency room or call their doctor’s answering service have another option — “telephone triage” through the Vista ...

Concerns over out-of-practice nurses staffing NHS 24 have been raised by Scottish doctors. Dr Georgina Brown, who worked alongside nurses at the Scottish Flu Response Centre, told the British Medical ...

Seattle mother of two Mary Ruhlman was gardening in her yard one day when her son sprayed his younger sister in the face with a bottle of weed killer. “I panicked,” she says, and quickly called ...

That said, practices who take the advice will need a way to accommodate, in a timely way, patient requests to be seen as soon as possible. I have experienced frustration with a dermatology office’s ...