Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care: A Study on Healthcare Services

Running head: PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY CARE
Primary, secondary and tertiary care
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Table of Contents
P1:...................................................................................................................................................2
Primary service:.........................................................................................................................2
Secondary service:...................................................................................................................3
Tertiary service:.........................................................................................................................3
Informal care:.............................................................................................................................4
M1:...................................................................................................................................................6
Primary service:.........................................................................................................................6
Secondary service:...................................................................................................................7
Tertiary service:.........................................................................................................................9
Informal care:...........................................................................................................................10
References:..................................................................................................................................12

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P1:
Primary service:
Primary care can be defined as the service provided in the community or local
setting for the public by an initial approach taken by medical practitioner for preliminary
advice or treatment in order to address any health issue. A primary care provider serves
as the point of first or initial contact, and principal point of continuing care that a patient
will receive within a healthcare system (Hunter et al., 2017). It has been mentioned that
primary care is provided to the patient by a health professional in community care unit
and primary care is generally provided by a general physician on a family physician to
the patient.
For this study the chosen primary care service is given by a General physician
by the name of Nabil Hamami, practicing in Cromwell hospital, providing general
consultation (McManners et al., 2018).
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Secondary service:
The second element of this study is the secondary care which is the next service
after primary care by being referred to the next step. The secondary care generally
comprises of a specialist (Haslam et al., 2016). At this point the patient will be looked
after by a healthcare professional who has more specific expertise in the health
adversity that the patient is feeling and can provide more experienced advice in both
diagnosis and treatment part of the procedure. Under the application of NHS, the
performance of secondary care is managed by the clinical commissioning groups. The
example chosen of secondary care in the study include hospitals providing the care of
Specialists.
The chosen hospital for the study is St Thomas Hospital which is funded by the
NHS Foundation trust. They provide Community Centre services of specialist secondary
care to the different individuals (Guysandstthomas.nhs.uk., 2018).
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Tertiary service:
A tertiary care hospital or tertiary referral hospital can be defined as a hospital
that provides tertiary care from the different specialists in large multispecialty healthcare
settings. In tertiary care settings the patients are referred from any primary care or
secondary care services. On a more elaborative note, tertiary care can be defined as a