Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs)
Advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs) come from a range of professional backgrounds such as nursing, pharmacy, paramedics, and occupational therapy. Our ACPs can visit, our populations, see assess diagnose and prescribe to treat people at home, avoiding an unnecessary trip to hospital when this is safe to do so.
About us
Our ACPs are a community-based team that provide support to people with an urgent healthcare need registered with a Wakefield GP. This team is made up of Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) with the aim of keeping people in a place they call home. They work closely with general practitioners and the service strives to visit all patients within two hours of referral to the team.
Patients that have urgent needs which can be managed at home. Referrals are mostly taken from GPs but are accepted from most sources. The team support patients to maximise their independence at home. Our team have links with all services including therapy services, adult social care, and voluntary sector providers such as Age UK and Carers Wakefield.
The team also provide community-based falls response services which will provide a better experience for those who fall, through improving initial response times and reducing the risk of long lies, improve system efficiency, and focusing ambulance capacity where it is needed most, building on existing community-based provider models.