NHS England published a QIPP Case Study on our Phone Advice & Guidance project in North East Essex. The study identifies £275k annual savings for elective care through avoided referrals. It also identifies annual savings of £250 – 400k for urgent care through reduced admissions.
You can read the case study below or click here to view and download a PDF version of this case study.
Dr Ajayi talks to us about his personal experience of answering A&G calls through the service.
Dr Alice Overbury describes how she uses Photo Advice & Guidance for Teledermatology on the Consultant Connect App.
Sylvanna Sandhu, a Diabetes Foot Nurse Specialist in South Warwickshire, describes how she uses Photo Advice & Guidance on the Consultant Connect App.
The Guardian uncovers the cutting-edge tech transforming healthcare in this feature created in co-operation with the Royal United Hospitals Bath and NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG.
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To help support the adoption and spread of Consultant Connect UCLPartners were keen to present it at their primary care innovation network meeting and show how NHS North Central London CCG are using rapid Telephone Advice & Guidance.
In this article Dr Davey explores what he has discovered from using Consultant Connect to call across hospital to speak to colleagues, and from his work providing verbal Cardiology Advice & Guidance to Primary Care.
As a Consultant Cardiologist who comes into daily contact with primary care clinicians seeking telephone advice and guidance, Dr Patrick Davey knows the impact his advice can have on patient care and long-term GP education.
Consultant Connect has been included in a new ‘first of its kind’ scientific article ‘Development and rapid evaluation of services to support the physical health of people using psychiatric inpatient units during the COVID-19 pandemic: study protocol’ published by Williams et al. with Implementation Science Communications.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) launched a physical health advice pilot in June 2020, providing physical health advice for inpatient wards. We take a look at the project nine months on.
One of the biggest challenges for hospitals delivering an Advice & Guidance service is staffing it – particularly during winter. The good news is that there’s now a way you can “switch on / switch off” additional consultant resource this winter.