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.
Andy Finlay, Improvement Programme Manager, Patient First Improvement Team at NMUH, shares insight into the team’s experience of Consultant Connect, including the benefits to clinicians, patients, and more.
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals recently used our Referral Triage service to support their long waiters list in Dermatology. One clear benefit of the work is in the management of clinical risk as it’s capturing the upgraded patients to 2WW as all cases are now triaged.
Consultant Connect’s ‘silver triage’ project in North London recently featured in Evening Standard.
The evolution of our project with Coventry and Warwickshire from when it first launched has been truly impressive. Find out more below.
Building Better Healthcare: Consultant Connect enables clinicians to triage waiting lists anywhere in the country.
The success of the triage work led to further expansion of the service, now supporting the trust to efficiently review their cardiology diagnostic results.