Advice and referrals in half the steps of the e-RS system NHSE announced last week that it would be pushing to make advice a more central feature of the process for referring patients for hospital appointments. This has looked like the direction of travel for the last...
How many NHS areas, clinicians, GP surgeries and patients are benefitting from Enhanced Advice & Guidance? What role does Advice & Guidance have to play in the post-covid NHS landscape? Here’s a sneak peek into our new benchmarking report which will answer these questions and much more…
A pilot project was launched whereby ambulance clinicians could use Consultant Connect to seek Telephone A&G regarding frail patients, as there is no local service available.
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.
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.
MS and Epilepsy Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU) services are reducing unnecessary visits to hospital and improving patient waiting times at Bedfordshire Hospitals. Short video clips included in this article show clinicians talking about what impact this has made…
Since October 2018, GPs, Paramedics and Junior Doctors in Tayside were given access to rapid prof-to-prof clinical decisions via Consultant Connect from Consultants at Ninewells Hospital. How has the service been performing and what has the feedback been?
There’s nothing more powerful than case studies to highlight the benefits of Teledermatology to patients and clinicians. This article features a selection of pieces which show how our services are playing a significant part in improving patient care.
