Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust: How digital technology can be used to increase assessment for delirium (July 2019)

Summary

This film features frontline staff from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust explaining how they are using technology to improve the quality of care they provide their patients. The team talk about an electronic assessment tool for delirium which has increased screening of people aged 65 years and over from 800 to more than 5,600 in 12 months. They also explain how the tool has helped them increase the number of identified cases per year and reduce the length of stay for these patients.

They also talk about the Global Digital Exemplar 'blueprint' they have created of this project, which is now available for other NHS organisations to use as a guide for their own local implementation of similar projects.

The GDE blueprints can be found on the FutureNHS platform. To register, email: [email protected]