SCC and its partners can provide a solution and process blueprint “Critical Path” that can evidence system wide benefit at scale, help with care pathway redesign and deliver more controlled and predictable hospital admissions and discharge figures.
Utilising technology that pre-empts health issues before they become acute events allows practitioners to better prioritise and scale their operations, whilst giving families and patients more assurance that their care needs are being met. It also complements the “feeding” of larger scale objectives such as Electronic Patient Record augmentation and Population Health Management programmes.
We therefore help provide organisations with a more effective way to manage increasing clinical workloads and help prevent unnecessary declines in patient health and wellbeing, through the development of optimised care plans and earlier intervention.
SCC initially carried out a pilot programme with South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust in 2021/2022 which delivered significant results:
58% reduction in GP appointments.
53% reduction in 999 calls.
43% reduction in unnecessary visits from place-based teams.
We are now developing the final business case and operational “comfort levels” with regards to the patient identification process, response model and practitioner use of data for this to scale across the whole local system.
This solution is therefore a hugely successful “product” of SCC's “Healthcare Innovation Methodology” and our physical “Innovation Hub” at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust. It is a process (and environment) that identifies local clinical need, then appropriate technology or solutions to address it, in turn putting the problem into a process of assessment that ultimately quickly proves its value (and ultimately scales), or fails fast (but for the right reasons and whilst adding to our collective learnings along the way).
A reduction in front-line service requirement, relieves resource constraints and provides cost savings on cost of patient care.
Identify symptoms of illness earlier making them easier to treat and improving patient outcomes.
Improved patient satisfaction, with less intrusive care interventions.