Enhanced Advice & Guidance provided by Consultant Connect has been available to clinicians in Derbyshire ICB since 2016. We spoke with Dr Julia Mason, a GP, to find out how the service supports her in providing the best patient care.
We spoke with three NHS consultants who provide Advice & Guidance to find out what types of queries they receive and the benefits this provides.
Meryl Spencer is a Consultant Orthodontist at Morriston Hospital in Swansea Bay University Health Board. Since early 2022, Meryl has been responding to Messaging A&G requests from GPs and Dentists via Consultant Connect.
In April 2022, the rheumatology department at Salford Royal implemented Consultant Connect Telephone Advice & Guidance as a replacement service for their bleep system.
Consultant Connect was launched in partnership with North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) as a one-year project to assist with Covid-19 pressures.
Dr Shakir talks to us about his personal experience of working on the Referral Triage service:
Dr O’Flanagan and Dr Neuling share the benefits of the new Paediatric 2WW Pathway at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire Foundation Trust, available via Consultant Connect.
Telemedicine devices overcome location issues by using world-class image and sound technology so consultants can see, hear, and speak with patients as if they were at their bedside – even if they are miles away at a different hospital.
Steven Evans, paramedic, and Dr Nakul Gupta, paediatric consultant, discuss how they use Enhanced Advice & Guidance to provide the best patient care.
It’s been over a year since Northampton General Hospital started using Consultant Connect’s Referral Triage service to clear a Cardiology referral backlog. In this blog article we share key performance stats to date.
