NHS Coventry & Warwickshire CCG expanded their project to give community teams (including place-based and ACP teams) in South Warwickshire access to Consultant Connect. They have achieved their objective to speed up communications between teams. This supports patient discharge and, where appropriate, keeps patients’ care closer to home. We share the project’s performance to date.
In this article, we catch up with Ashley Backhouse, Account Manager at Consultant Connect, to learn more about his role and how he supports NHS areas.
Your NHS area’s strategy to ease A&E pressure this winter will have to be wide-ranging. At the heart of it will be the need to ensure that only those patients who need to be seen face-to-face by a clinician attend their GP practice or hospital…
It’s often still very difficult in the NHS to speak directly to the right person when timely advice is really needed – especially if a patient’s needs are complex or urgent. This is why we are working with more and more NHS areas to provide rapid and reliable...
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust’s (SWFT) Frailty Service have been leading an array of activities to aid patient referrals. In this article we uncover the key activities across the trust which ultimately work towards keeping patients out of hospital, especially as we head towards winter.
By harnessing new technology, the Welsh Ambulance Service has attracted a lot of positive international press coverage. This article explains how this highly regarded organisation is utilising Consultant Connect as part of its wider digital strategy.
A&E attendances are running well above seasonal levels in many hospitals and there’s now a real risk of a surge in respiratory viruses in autumn affecting young children. Keeping children out of hospital can start from outside of A&E.
Recently the HSJ reported a significant ‘summer pressure’ in Urgent Care. Firstly, A&E attendances are now running well above seasonal levels. Secondly, attendances are particularly high among children.
Guest article by Jonathon Will, Clinical Effectiveness Lead, Specialist Paramedic & Tayside Mountain Rescue Officer, Scottish Ambulance Service.
We recently caught up with Optometrists Ryan Desai and Dilesh Makwana, who both work in the NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG area to find out how they use Photo Advice & Guidance to manage patient conditions. Dilesh, is a community Optometrist who uses Photo Advice & Guidance via the Consultant Connect App to request advice from Ryan and his colleagues.
