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So the MACS clinic is about managing patients with multiple Chronic diseases
in one holistic one-stop shop. So a lot of patients who are elderly and have got
multiple conditions like Diabetes, and heart failure, and kidney disease and other sort of things
usually have to go and see multiple different specialists. What we try and offer is a one-stop shop,
so that we have a nurse, a pharmacist and a specialist seeing the patient
for a much longer period of time, so that we can offer more holistic service to
attend to all their needs, and what we then do is we then have a discussion about the patient,
workout some goals for them, in terms of their
medication as well as their lifestyle and social issues,
and we communicate those to the GP. We see the patients on two/three occasions and
then discharge them back to their GP.
What makes us unique is that what we've been able to do is to take a lot of the services
that are provided in hospitals, and actually deliver that out to the community and the
patients get a lot of benefit from that, and also the staff get a lot of benefit from that as well.