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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.

Kat James, Director of New Projects at Consultant Connect, one of the UK’s leading telemedicine providers, explains how the company is working with the NHS to cut down gynaecology waiting times.

Consultant Connect’s clinically-led Referral Triage and Validation service supports specialty teams to reduce their waiting list backlogs in bulk and/or new referrals as they come in.

Kat James, Director of New Projects at Consultant Connect, one of the UK’s leading telemedicine providers, explains how the company is working with the NHS to cut down on waiting lists using technology that’s simpler than you think.

Our consultant-led long-waiter Referral Triage and Validation service clears waiting list backlogs in bulk and/or new referrals as they come in. The service uses the expertise of the NHS consultants from our National Consultant Network (NCN).

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.

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.