Head of service
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About the service
The Family Medicine and Community Nursing Service is the patient's first and most frequent point of contact with the Health Centre. Its work includes monitoring the population's health, preventive examinations, early detection of disease, diagnosis, treatment and referring patients for further examinations when needed.
A particular part of its work concerns ongoing care for patients with chronic conditions, health counselling, providing professional opinions and coordinating healthcare for patients at the main facility and local clinics.
The service performs the following duties: monitoring the health of the population and the hygiene and epidemiological conditions within its area of activity; maintaining and improving the health of the population; providing healthcare for secondary school pupils and students; providing timely treatment and appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; referring patients for hospital treatment; conducting preventive examinations; and ordering laboratory, radiological and other diagnostic procedures to establish a diagnosis.
Service organisation
The service organises primary healthcare, home nursing and work in local clinics. Under the staffing and organisational structure, it includes the following functional units:
- Family medicine teams and outpatient care
- Home nursing and community healthcare
- Preventive examinations, counselling and health education
- Monitoring patients with chronic conditions and referring them for additional diagnostic tests
- Patient care in local clinics