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UKCAT考试：医疗结构和基本条款

Primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, social

care. This list of medical terms is thrown around in interviews is long and it

doesn’t look

good if you have to ask“what does that mean?”. Although it’sperfectly legitimately for you to have not come across these terms during yourvarious work experience placement, its far better to understand them ahead ofthe interview. Also, using these terms in your answers will be sure to impress(just make sure you use them correctly). This blog covers a few of theessential terms, their definitions, and examples in which they might be used(or in which you could use them).

Ok, let’s start with primary, secondary and tertiary care–ones thatgets used a lot. This system describes the hierarchy of care in the NHS and theusual flow of patients through it. Primary care describes the first point ofcontact–usually GP. This is where the majority ofpatients are seen and treated. It’s a very important area to be aware of as GPs are seen as the‘gate-keepers’ofhealthcare, deciding who should and shouldn’t receive further investigations or treatment.

Also, many argue that this area is underfunded as it’s an area of catching diseases before they needtreatment (just think about how much it costs to have a patient stay inhospital compared to seeing their GP).

In a nutshell, secondary care is hospital care.

Usually patients are referred to hospitals by GPs for further management (IE

the hospital is the second point of care). An important exception to this

schema is A&E, where patients present directly to secondary care. Patients

in secondary care will often have a short stay in hospital for treatment.

Following this, tertiary care describes more specialist hospital care which is

often more long-term. Operations and chemotherapy would fall into this

category. There is also quaternary care which is just even more specialised,

niche and sometimes experimental, but don’t worry about that.

Another type of care worth knowing, and discussing

in your interview, is social care. This describes non-doctor care in the

community for‘social’issues.Examples of this would include health visitors, nursing homes and otherservices that support people in everyday life. This is particularly hot topicas social care cuts have had a knock-on effect to secondary care. The A&Ecrises that seem to roll around each winter are argued to be the direct effectof reductions in social care. In many hospitals, elderly patients are unable tobe discharged due to a lack of facilities to support them once they leave–ie they needmore support in day-to-day life so can’t return home. This means these patients remain on the wards.

This has several knock-on effects. Firstly, it

means new patients cannot be brought onto the wards from A&E, leading to

increases in A&E waiting times (remember the large number of news stories

about A&E waiting times in the winter of 2014). Secondly, it leads to the

cancelling of non-emergency operations as there are not enough spaces on wards.

This leads to longer waiting times for operations like hip replacements and

laproscopic cholecystectomies (gall-bladder removal), and very unhappy patient

who are in a lot of pain. Thirdly, it costs a lot to keep people in hospital–more than ina care home, or their own home.

So, there we have it. A brief summary of thestructure of the health service and the essential terms you need for yourinterview.

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