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?
Traditionally, this is the time of year when ‘surprise’ NHS winter money is released.
Our teledermatology project at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been working to speed up diagnosis of skin lesions and reduce demand on the two-week wait (2WW) pathway since June 2018.
Find out how Scottish Health Boards and the Scottish Ambulance Service are using Consultant Connect to transform communication and improve patient care.
It’s well known that giving GPs tools such as immediate access to remote consultant-led advice enables more patients to be managed in primary care settings and leads to fewer unnecessary referrals. So, can’t the same be true when it comes to delivering services in the community? It can, and it is.
In this article, we share examples of how Consultant Connect is used to support clinicians seeing Children and Young People (CYPs).
Jonathan Patrick, CEO at Consultant Connect, one of the UK’s leading telemedicine providers, discusses the current situation in the NHS and opportunities going forward.
Consultant Connect technology enabled the triage of over 1,000 referrals at Kettering General Hospital in fewer than two months. This breakthrough comes at a time when more than 230,000 patients are on neurology waiting lists across England, waiting on average 17 weeks.
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