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. 2015 Feb 28;8(2):52–63. doi: 10.4066/AMJ.2015.2278

Table 1:Nature of working relationships between clinic staff.

Aspect Quote(s)
Relationship with other allied health professionals in the area “We just have an alliance, almost, with them [Allied Health]. But there is good communication with the different health professionals, where a doctor might refer to their exercise physiologist, say, and a letter will come back saying, … ‘This is what we’ve identified. This is the treatment plan we’ve opted for.’“ (2)
Clinic meeting “Within that clinical meeting, periodically, we should have the pharmacist and the dietician. It doesn’t always have to be both, or the nurse… I'd like to see the pharmacist get involved in those. When new drugs come along, we’d go to a meeting we should sit and talk and the pharmacist should put information about the data and about side effects and costs.” (8)
Role of reception staff “[operating] as a team approach because if our nurse sees something or another GP sees something we need to communicate it back to ourselves or even reception, because they’re the eyes and ears.” (7)