The fact that hospitals are overwhelmed and not always the best place to navigate certain types of patients is not new information. That’s why four NHS leaders from across the UK shared insight into how they’ve set up proven UEC pathways at our recent webinar.
Following our NHS panel discussion, consultants delivering Referral Triage explained the steps and what they entail:
Joe Matthews, Senior Urgent and Emergency Care Lead at NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) ICB, discusses how relaunching their frailty line with Consultant Connect August 2021 has allowed Primary Care clinicians and ambulance teams to have a conversation and practice the ‘call before convey’ method before unnecessarily bringing a frailty patient into a busy ED.
Hear from a Neurology and Dermatology consultant on how the National Consultant Network is helping NHS areas needing extra clinical capacity to reduce their waiting lists. It’s a switch on/switch off service.
Consultant Connect has been connecting Primary Care clinicians with specialists in Lanarkshire for Professional-to-Professional Advice since November 2020. In August 2023, NHS Lanarkshire launched a ‘call before convey’ pilot encouraging Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) clinicians across the Health Board to use Consultant Connect to contact local ED consultants, within the Flow Navigation Centre, when seeing patients with non-life-threatening conditions.
In our webinar on Monday 29 October 2018, experts shared their ideas about how to improve CAMHS. Speakers included:Dr Duncan Law, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, Co-creator of the CAPA system, Director of...
