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Project News

Impact | Dermatology Triage in Hywel Dda UHB

NHS Trusts across the country continue to turn to our clinically-led Referral Triage and Clinical Validation service to reduce their waiting lists backlogs and new patient referrals. We recently triaged over 1,200 dermatology referrals in Hywel Dda University Health Board, read on to find out more.

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Using Consultant Connect for Frailty pathways

Joe Matthews, Senior Urgent and Emergency Care Lead at NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) ICB, discusses how relaunching their frailty line with Consultant Connect August 2021 has allowed Primary Care clinicians and ambulance teams to have a conversation and practice the ‘call before convey’ method before unnecessarily bringing a frailty patient into a busy ED.

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Reduce Neurology waiting lists by 30-50%

Our ‘switch-off/switch-on’ National Consultant Network supports neurology teams across the country working remotely to triage waiting lists. Consultants follow local pathways and protocols, under the leadership of local clinical leads.

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‘Call before convey’ in NHS Lanarkshire: From 3-day pilot to business as usual

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.

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