If this is your first visit to the site, please start by reading ABOUT MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM (MDT) MEETINGS below. If you are returning to the site, you can use RESOURCES & LINKS to take you directly to relevant information and downloads to run or participate in a MDT meeting. There are 2 types of MDTs. Both approaches attract Continuing Professional Development peer review points for GPs.
ABOUT MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM (MDT) MEETINGS
Primary Care Led MDTs: The steps for general practice and primary care services to run or participate in a MDT meeting are available at the bottom of this page. These MDTs may be run by either GPs or Practice Nurses (with GPs attending).
Te-Hono: Is a monthly MDT meeting for GPs to link to a specialist or specialists via Zoom. The purpose of Te Hono is to provide GPs with improved access to specialists’ advice and to pass on learnings to a group of clinicians, at one consultation, rather than by individual advice per individual patient.
Why would our patients benefit from multidisciplinary teams? Feedback from our patients and communities continues to identify the significant impact of fragmented care and access to services on the health of patients.
In Northland we have a high number of patients identified as high need with complex care requirements. Poor care coordination causes actual harm to patients, results in multiple, repeating emergency department attendances for some patients and results in dissatisfaction and burn out for GPs.
National and International evidence shows that well run, primary-care led MDTs which include social care services alongside community carers can deliver safe, high quality, effective care for complex high need patients, improve health outcomes.
RUNNING OR PARTICIPATING IN A MDT MEETING
Running a MDT Meeting
Participating in a MDT Meeting
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