Hear from a Neurology and Dermatology consultant on how the National Consultant Network is helping NHS areas needing extra clinical capacity to reduce their waiting lists. It’s a switch on/switch off service.
Consultant Connect has been connecting Primary Care clinicians with specialists in Lanarkshire for Professional-to-Professional Advice since November 2020. In August 2023, NHS Lanarkshire launched a ‘call before convey’ pilot encouraging Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) clinicians across the Health Board to use Consultant Connect to contact local ED consultants, within the Flow Navigation Centre, when seeing patients with non-life-threatening conditions.
MK Citizen have published an article celebrating the Maple Centre’s 1st birthday and highlighting how the use of Consultant Connect has helped clinicians treat over 20,000 patients.
Integrated Care Journal published an article on the impact of using Consultant Connect’s teledermatology service.
Read Building Better Healthcare’s interview with Henry Maas, head of new initiatives at Consultant Connect.
Advice and referrals in half the steps of the e-RS system NHSE announced last week that it would be pushing to make advice a more central feature of the process for referring patients for hospital appointments. This has looked like the direction of travel for the last...
Have you heard of the remote NHS consultants who are helping NHS areas across the country clear their waiting lists? The service can be switched on at pace, meaning the impact on patient care is immediate.
A PDSA is an excellent way of testing whether a project will work without long-term commitment.
NHS Confederation recently published a case study about the Silver Triage initiative, enabling specialist geriatricians to provide advice, via Consultant Connect, to ambulance paramedics who are assessing older people.
BBC East Midlands Today’s Health Correspondent Rob Sissons reports on how Consultant Connect tech is being used across Leicester to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and support patients to be treated in the right place at the right time.