Via Verde Saúde Laranjeiro: an health equity project
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https://doi.org/10.32385/rpmgf.v41i1.13268Keywords:
Walk-in-clinic, Access, EquityAbstract
The Via Verde Saúde Laranjeiro (VVL) project was created in February 2020 with the main goal of providing quality primary health care to approximately 7,000 patients enrolled in the Santo António e Laranjeiro Personalized Health Care Unit (UCSP SAL) without an assigned family team, and to about 2,000 sporadic patients, in an irregular situation, contributing to alleviate the glaring inequality in access to health care in the region. It is based on a walk-in-clinic model, with user’s initiative appointments for general and family medicine (MGF) on the same day, regardless of the reason. It is also based on surveillance of vulnerable groups managed by specialist nurses, with medical intervention at key moments or whenever requested. It includes nurses, technical and operational assistants from UCSP SAL, family doctors, and family medicine trainees from this and other functional units of the Almada-Seixal Health Centers Group (ACeS AS). Following the implementation of this project, there were profound changes in the composition of the medical team and in the motivation of the entire multi-professional team at UCSP SAL, which applied to evolve to the Family Health Unit (USF) model in August 2021.
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