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.
The Business Magazine published an article highlighting Consultant Connect’s successful 2023, saving more than 200,000 patients from needless trips to the hospital.
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.
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...
In this article, we share an example of how our consultant-led Referral Triage and Validation service is being used to reduce neurology waiting lists.