RCGP Continuity of Care Toolkit: promoting relational continuity

摘要

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has recently released the Continuity of Care Toolkit1 that gives practical advice about how to diagnose and protect the capacity of patients and practitioners to ‘retain contact with each other’ (a nice succinct definition of relational continuity). The toolkit recommends an initial diagnosis of the state of continuity of care in the practice as a trigger for conversations about what specific actions can be taken to safeguard continuity of care. Starting this conversation has just become easier with the availability of a Continuity Calculator,2 which helps practitioners generate the needed continuity statistics for the practice.