At Consultant Connect, we recognise the vital role that admin plays in healthcare, reflected on National Administrative Professionals Day, which is why Enhanced A&G is designed to save both clinical and admin teams time by making processes easier.
In April 2021, Salford Care Organisation needed a way of providing same-day urgent advice to clinicians whilst reducing unnecessary hospital admissions. As a result, Enhanced Advice & Guidance provided by Consultant Connect was implemented.
Professional-to-professional clinical decisions provided by Consultant Connect has been available to clinicians in Tayside for 6 years, supporting them in caring for their patients.
Does your local area need the extra temporary clinical capacity for referral triage and validation? There’s NHS consultant capacity to clear waiting lists remotely:
Dr David Griffiths is a practicing GP and Medical Director of Consultant Connect. In this short article, Dr Griffiths tells us more about the effects of winter on primary care, and what tools can help.
Winter resilience strategies will have to be wide ranging. At their heart will be the need to keep patients out of hospital and ensure that only those patients who need to be seen face-to-face by a clinician attend their hospital. A good place to start is with improving communications, and that’s where our service can help.
Three examples of how Consultant Connect services are being used to help clinicians align to provide a more patient-centred approach for people with long-term conditions.
Trusts with local consultant capacity challenges are benefiting from extra temporary virtual NHS consultants to triage their waiting lists via our ‘on demand’ enhanced clinical triage and validation service.
What is the impact of moving SDEC access to Consultlant Connect? We’ve crunched the numbers to reveal the impressive impact and growth of SDEC lines available via Consultant Connect in the last 12 months.
Due to a build-up of gynaecology referrals, a Referral Validation project at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire was initiated in 2022 resulting in a significant reduction of patients needing to be on the waiting list.
