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.
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.
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.
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.
SWFT’s integrated frailty service is featured in NHSE’s latest delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services. Read the feature and watch our latest video case study.
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.
Due to a significant backlog of patients awaiting a community paediatrics appointment in Buckinghamshire, a Referral Triage project was initiated for 450 existing cases.
