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).
South East London ICB have set up links to efficiently route GPs to their Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) services, allowing for a more specialised approach when it comes to treating patients requiring urgent medical care. We recently caught up with Dr Roshan Navin, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine & SDEC to find out about his experience of the SDEC service via Consultant Connect.
Why does moving local specialty hotlines to Consultant Connect centralise the whole Advice & Guidance process making things much easier for clinicians, specialists, and commissioners?
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