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NHSX to fund and support innovations for 500k people at home
Clive Flashman posted a news article in News
NHSX have revealed that they will fund and support 14 new projects across the country to help half a million people receive care at home using digital technology. This will include remote cardiac rehabilitation services and digital self-management systems, as well as parental support services for families of children with eating disorders. Tara Donnelly, Chief Digital Officer at NHSX, said: “Through our Digital Health Partnership Award, these organisations will have access to the expertise and support they need to adopt or expand their digital capabilities safely and effectively, allowing many more patients with long term conditions to receive their care from the comfort of their homes rather than always having to attend primary and acute settings.” In addition to innovation in digital technology, a number of the projects build on existing services to ensure more patients can benefit from remote services. One of the projects also includes the expansion of secure video services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, which will make it possible for patients and carers, as well as their doctors, to share seizure videos across their neurology service. Cambridgeshire Community Services are also expanding their remote health monitoring service. Read the full article here Source: National Health Executive -
EventECRI has released its newest list of the Top 10 patient safety concerns confronting healthcare organisations. Healthcare providers, regardless of their practice setting, can start with our Top 10 list and use it to guide their own discussions about patient safety and improvement initiatives. This top 10 report highlights patient safety concerns across the continuum of care because patient safety strategies increasingly focus on collaborating with other provider organizations, community agencies, patients or residents, and family members. Each patient safety concern on this list may affect more than one setting. Join ECRI to learn more about the identified concerns and how your organisation can begin to address them. Register
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Eventuntil2020 saw a huge leap in the delivery of virtual health and care, with encouraging lessons for the current crisis and beyond. But has the speed of innovation been at the expense of inclusive people and patient-centred care? In this free online event from the King's Fund, explore what we can learn from the innovations that have accelerated during the pandemic and how we can align patient and user involvement in the development of future virtual health and care solutions. Register
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Content ArticleThere has been an increase in the use of video group consultations (VGCs) by general practice staff, particularly since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, when in-person care was restricted. This qualitative study in the British Journal of General Practice aimed to examine the factors affecting how VGCs are designed and implemented in general practice. Through semi-structured interviews with practice staff and patients, the authors found that: in the first year of the pandemic, VGCs focused on supporting those with long-term conditions or other shared health and social needs. most patients welcomed clinical and peer input, and the opportunity to access their practice remotely during lockdown. not everyone agreed to engage in group-based care or was able to access IT equipment. significant work was needed for practices to deliver VGCs, such as setting up the digital infrastructure, gaining team buy-in, developing new patient-facing online facilitation roles, managing background operational processes, protecting online confidentiality, and ensuring professional indemnity cover. national training was seen as instrumental in capacity building for VGC implementation.
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Content ArticleThis white paper from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) describes a framework to guide health care organisations in their efforts to provide safe, equitable, person-centred telemedicine. The framework includes six elements to consider: access, privacy, diagnostic accuracy, communication, psychological and emotional safety, and human factors and system design.
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Content ArticleThis survey conducted by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) explored the experiences of people who used community mental health services between September and November 2020. The results show that people are consistently reporting poor experiences of NHS community mental health services, with few positive results. Many people reported that their mental health had deteriorated as a result of changes made to their care and treatment due to the pandemic. Analysis also showed disparities in the experiences of people with different mental health diagnoses, and in the experience of people using different methods to access care, such as telephone consultations. On this webpage you can also access a benchmark report for each NHS trust, which provides detail of the survey methodology, headline results, the trust score for each evaluative question and banding for how a trust score compares with all other trusts.
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Content ArticleIn a fundamental sense, the vision for transforming virtual care from that of an exclusive service that benefits only a few to that of a standard for providing equitable care for all echoes the age-old debate between policy variations on the zip code and the genetic code. This commentary from Esha Ray Chaudhuri aims to further develop the key theme of engaging the “reimagining” of virtual care for older ethnic adults—by considering the syndemic nature of COVID-19 and the intersection of cultural interventions in care and equity in virtual care.
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Content ArticleDr Gordon Hay, service director of A&E/urgent care services at Moorfields Eye Hospital discusses with Digital Health the challenge to minimising hospital visits during the pandemic and how Moorfields Eye Hospital utilised a video conference platform to implement a fully functional virtual A&E service, providing an effective hybrid care delivery model for the future.
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Content ArticleLisa Drake, an NHS ex General Practice Manager now working in a digital advisory role, shares some of the missed opportunities for digital ways of working she witnessed when she was a patient herself.
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Content ArticleVideo and telephone consultations have, through the course of the pandemic, become a central of daily operations across the NHS. In this blog, Ben Gadd and Amanda Nash of University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust share their experiences about how they are being received and the potential lessons we can learn.
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Content ArticleThis article in the BMJ highlights a number of recent articles that reflect on the realities facing the health service after the first brutal years of the Covid-19 pandemic. It summarises and links to articles in the BMJ about the elective care backlog, A&E waiting times, remote appointments, Government pressures that stop senior clinicians speaking out about pressures, and the need for credible policy solutions. It also highlights an article outlining how Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol have resulted in the UK being denied access to European research funding and meetings.
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Content ArticleThe Covid-19 pandemic triggered a very sudden and widespread shift to remote consulting in general practice. Many patients and healthcare professionals have welcomed the convenience, quality and safety of remote consulting, but there are inherent tensions in choosing between remote and face-to-face care when capacity is limited. This report by the Nuffield Trust explores the opportunities, challenges and risks associated with the shift towards remote consultations, and the practical and policy implications of recent learning.
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Content ArticleAt the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, demand on the NHS 111 system exceeded capacity and only around half of calls were answered during that time. This investigation by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) aimed to support improvements in the delivery of NHS 111 and other telephone triage services during a national healthcare emergency. HSIB first identified a potential safety risk associated with NHS 111’s response to callers with Covid-19-related symptoms when concerns were raised through HSIB’s Citizens’ Partnership. The national investigation aimed to understand: the set-up, design and delivery of the Covid-19 telephone triage service accessed by the public by dialling 111 in response to the pandemic. the context and contributory factors influencing the pathway for patients calling NHS 111 with Covid-19-related symptoms. The investigation used four real patient safety incidents involving patients and their families who dialled NHS 111 for advice during the Covid-19 pandemic. All four patients in these reference events—Vincenzo, Ali, Patrick and Dr C—died of Covid-19 having been advised by NHS 111 to stay at home.
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EventuntilThis webinar will explore virtual care and the use of patient health data through remote patient monitoring. In the UK and US alike, COVID-19 has accelerated the dramatic shift towards utilising digital health services and tools to virtually connect with and care for patients. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) offers providers the opportunity to remotely collect and utilise patients’ personal health data, such as data from their home-use medical devices and wearables, within care delivery efforts. These personal health data are providing deeper insight into patients’ physiologic health metrics, lifestyle decisions and behavioural trends while replacing the clinical data previously collected in-person. As health care organisations need to quickly scale virtual care to thousands of patients, clear best practices and lessons learned have emerged. This episode will deep-dive into the successful operations of the largest, centralised RPM programme, supporting over 3000 clinicians and more than 50,000 enrolled patients. We’ll delve into the most basic and complex challenges around patient-generated health data, patient consent, enrollment workflows, device logistics, patient and provider engagement, and more. This webinar will explore: Core operations and technologies to a holistic virtual care strategy The clinical outcomes, patient and provider satisfaction, and efficiencies created with RPM Best practices in digital health operations, data integration, analytics, and engagement A model and framework for scaling virtual care and RPM to thousands of patients quickly A CPD certificate with 1 CPD credit will be issued to those joining the webinar live as well as those who watch the recording afterwards. Certificates will be issued 7 days after the webinar to those who watch it live and after 30 days for those that watch the recording. Join in the conversation online using #RSMDigiHealthBook hereFollow us on Twitter: @RoySocMed Book here
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Content ArticleTelemedicine has potential to address inequity in healthcare but not until certain barriers are addressed. This article from Joanna Pearlstein in Wired discusses how physicians and care organisations have to be creative and rely on partnerships and local resources, such as school district hot spots or public library broadband access, to make the system reliably work for all their patients.
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Content ArticleIn this month's Letter from America, Lorri Zipperer discusses cautions and capabilities associated with healthcare technologies. Letter from America is a Patient Safety Learning blog series highlighting new accomplishments and patient safety challenges in the United States. This is Lorri's last blog in the series and we'd like to thank Lorri for sharing her insights with us over the last 12 months. Read here all the Letter from America blogs
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Content ArticleIt is often the case that particular healthcare policies and practices change overnight from being discouraged or even forbidden to becoming more or less compulsory. An example of this is the change in how patients can access doctors during the coronavirus pandemic. At the end of July, Matt Hancock gave a speech on the future of healthcare in which he declared “… from now on, all consultations should be teleconsultations unless there is a compelling reason not to.” The following day, Sir Simon Stevens’ letter on the third phase of the NHS response to COVID-19 gave more nuanced messages and acknowledged the place of face to face consultations alongside digital and telephone consultations in some circumstances. Meanwhile, a recent RCGP survey reported that at the present time 61% of appointments are full telephone consultations and 16% are telephone triages. Many changes in how patients can access doctors have the potential to offer great benefits to patients and to ease pressures on health systems; however, what is right in some circumstances is not right for all as Ros Levenson, Chair of Academy Patient and Lay Committee, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, discusses in her blog.
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Content ArticleDr Steve Barker is joined by Ronald Weinstein, Director/Founder, Arizona Telemedicine Program, and Jeffrey Dunn, Founder/CEO, Redivus Health, to discuss the future of telemedicine within the patient safety and quality improvement space. Telemedicine has become a significant area of investment in recent years and the panelists predict that, in the future, user experience, consolidation, customisation based on relevance to the user, robotics, and health literacy will become top priorities.
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Could telemedicine solve the cancer backlog?
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Telemedicine
Although millions of patients with cancer around the world face delays in diagnosis and treatment because of the diversion of resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing expectation that telemedicine may play a central role in easing the backlog. This Lancet Digital Health article explores how telemedicine will be key as healthcare systems move forward in tackling the backlog in not only cancer treatment but also diagnosis, and how augmented intelligence (AI) could be used to help to optimise its use. -
Content ArticleHealthcare organisations including regulators, royal colleges and faculties have issued a set of principles to help protect patient safety and welfare when accessing potentially-harmful medication online or over the phone. The jointly-agreed princsiples set out the good practice expected of healthcare professionals when prescribing medication online.
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Telecare and telehealth - Age UK
Claire Cox posted an article in Telecare
Age UK explain what Telecare is and how it could help you live independently and stay in control of your health and wellbeing. -
Content ArticleA presentation detailing enhanced health in care homes from a digital care hub providing teleconsulation and electronic shared records.
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Content ArticleThe objective of this review is to contribute to the development of the GMC's policy in this area. Given the GMC’s role as a regulator of individual healthcare professionals (i.e. doctors) this study focuses on the types of requirements and standards applicable to or having implications for healthcare practitioners, rather than the regulation of healthcare providers (e.g. hospitals, surgeries etc.) or healthcare systems as a whole.
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World Health Organization - Telehealth
Claire Cox posted an article in Telehealth
The World Health Organisation describes what TeleHealth is and how it can improve healthcare access and outcomes. -
Content ArticleClinical negligence claims are often built upon a lack of adequate documentation of what was said and allegations that patients have not been properly counselled about risks and alternatives. Elizabeth Thomas explores in this HSJ article what this means for the increasingly significant role of telemedicine and the steps which can go a long way in reducing the burden on patients and the public purse
