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Get Ready for October in 6 Minutes with eConsult
With the new GP contract coming into effect from the 1st October, you’ll need to keep online requests open during core hours to allow patients to submit routine, non-urgent requests,…
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How much money could the NHS save by reducing Outpatient DNAs?
Read moreAccording to Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data in 2019-20, outpatient attendances (whether first or subsequent) as a proportion of total appointments have decreased from 80.1% to 77.2% in the last…
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ERF: what is it and how can it help hospital departments clear the backlog?
Read moreThe Elective Recovery Fund (ERF) is a £1 billion fund made available to help hospitals recover their levels of activity, post COVID-19 pandemic. Outpatient consultations are part of this scope.…
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We can’t achieve remote consultation targets with video or telephone alone – we need both.
Read moreOutpatient care is a problem area primed and ready for innovation and service redesign. There were 125 million outpatient appointments recorded in HES data in 2019-20, (67% more than ten…