How to make your consults more effective
The Working Alliance system measures psychologists' relationships with their clients. Could it work for GPs?
These tricky consultations can be difficult to manage wihout a framework to address the problems and ways to address them.
However, it is possible to develop a structured approach to difficult consultations and this reframing may help to progress things for both patients and ourselves.
There is increasing evidence that the relationship between a doctor and their patient affects that patient’s health outcomes.2
But how can this be measured in a way that makes sense and is reproducible?
