Caring for your business

Running a small business is a challenge at the best of times and the health of you and your workforce is fundamental to its continued success. Large corporate healthcare firms offer often quite costly and formulaic employee insurance and healthcare packages. The primary care component of these packages is predominantly offered online, rather than in person, and cannot provide the familiar face generally desired by patients and businesses.

LOCALLY, A NUMBER OF SMALL INDEPENDENT, PRIVATE GPs OFFER

A MORE BESPOKE SERVICE TO LOCAL BUSINESSES, providing annual health screening and regular care. This is moving back to a more old-fashioned model of general practice and primary care.

Continuity and quality care

An intimate knowledge of local health infrastructure and a personal touch provides continuity and high-quality care. With the average wait for a routine NHS GP appointment now approaching two weeks across the United Kingdom, there is clearly a need for another way. Access is a key quality marker for primary care and without good primary care, the wider economy suffers. Most small private GP providers can offer face-to-face and remote consulting, with much more flexibility.

By Dr HENRY SEDDON

The best care does not always resort to purely pharmaceutical strategies, but instead looks at optimising every facet of a patient’s lifestyle. Sleep, medicine, nutritional optimisation, exercise and mental health are often not prioritised within NHS care frameworks.

Prompt, knowledgeable assessment

Care for the wider family is also very important for local small businesses. Specialist GP paediatric and older adult expertise allows for the prompt, knowledgeable assessment of children and infants, and older adults, avoiding unnecessary time away from businesses caring for sick loved ones.

A small, private GP service can offer you and your employees healthcare screening, looking at a broader degree of health parameters than is available within NHS general practice.

This allows for proactive and targeted healthcare, which has been gradually constrained within the NHS.

If you are interested in finding out more about how bespoke healthcare packages could provide peace of mind for you or your business, please have a look at the Redwing Independent Medical Practice.

Dr Henry Seddon Redwing Independent Medical Practice 01244 680214 redwing-igp.co.uk