37 Table 1Question Parents feedback How did you find the layout of the new multidisciplinary review clinic? • Really useful to see all professionals at the same time.• It was good that different healthcare professionals could collaborate with each other at the same time, preventing duplicate assessments• Helpful and saves time. You don’t have to have the same conversation with different people, you can just say it once• It was really helpful especially as so many of his needs or my questions cross over the different disciplines. It saves a lot of timeAre there any recommendations for changes/improvements for the future clinics • Please make sure patients do not have another appointment before or after the joint clinic. It was a long exhausting day otherwise.• For review to be held at schoolConclusionsMDT clinics are held on a regular basis in tertiary centers but they are not so easy to coordinate in secondary care/community settings due to cross organisational working. Our model of multidisciplinary clinics at Bedford Child Development Center was highly appreciated by parents and is more convenient to children who have complex needs. It reduces the need for multiple clinic visits and journey to different clinic/hospitals. For healthcare professionals it brings all relevant people into one clinic which enables faster decision making and encourages discussion amongst professionals. It also reduced the need for internal referrals.Following parent feedback, we will consider taking this MDT clinic to special needs school sites in future to make it more convenient for children with complex needs and enable the specialist nursing service to join the MDT too.
Multidisciplinary team clinics in secondary care – is this the future?