Our consultant-led long-waiter Referral Triage and Validation service clears waiting list backlogs in bulk and/or new referrals as they come in. The service uses the expertise of the NHS consultants from our National Consultant Network (NCN).
Does your local area need the extra temporary clinical capacity for referral triage and validation? There’s NHS consultant capacity to clear waiting lists remotely:
This Emergency Services Day, we’re highlighting how six ambulance trusts up and down the UK use Consultant Connect to speak rapidly and directly with clinicians to discuss whether A&E is the most suitable destination for their patients.
We’re showcasing how, as the UK’s leading provider of Advice & Guidance, we’re already enhancing care for urology patients within Scotland.
Following the success of our initial referral triage pilot in January 2024 where 1,000 neurology referrals were triaged in one NHS hospital, the service expanded through to March 2025 with more than 3,000 neurology referrals triaged.
GIRFT’s handbook ‘Further Faster Neurology’ provides best practice guidance to accelerate the reductions of neurology waiting lists. Here’s where remote ‘virtual locum’ NHS consultants fit in.
Moving local hotline arrangements such as ‘on-call’ or ‘hot-week’ consultant lines to Consultant Connect brings everything in one place, centralising the whole Advice & Guidance process, delivering efficiencies, and benefiting all parties involved. This is exactly what happened to the ‘Integrated Elderly Care Silver Phone’ in Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT).
GIRFT’s handbook ‘Further Faster Ear, Nose and Throat’ provides best practice guidance to accelerate the reductions of E.N.T waiting lists. Here’s where a remote service that works on local systems and utilises NHS consultants from out of area can support with some of the tasks.
Supporting resident doctors on clinical journeys, Consultant Connect’s Enhanced Advice & Guidance service is used by over half of the NHS in England, Scotland, and Wales, connecting clinicians with specialists for rapid discussions.
We’re working with trusts and commissioners across the NHS to make their telephone advice lines and call before convey strategies more reliable, to be ready by September, in time for winter.