New Autoplanner Frees Up Clinician Hours Innovation

The challenge: Saving senior clinicians valuable patient-facing time by eliminating the need to manually update their schedules.

The solution: Autoplanner allows users to automatically schedule all of their visits for a caseload on a daily basis. The system matches the journeys and direction of travel to plan visits with maximum efficiency and minimum mileage.

The system also analyses the type of visit, required skill sets, and direction of travel for each nurse and matches them with a patient visit that best suits them, including factoring in the most efficient route.

Hannah Barber, maternity lead at Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group

The outcome: In the first pilot period, Provide Community saw a huge reduction in the time spent on scheduling all ICR visits, falling from 532.5 hours of nursing time a week to just 40 across all teams. This represents 20,956 hours saved annually with a 5% reduction in deferred or cancelled visits.

Wearable Headsets

Enhance Remote Care

Wearable technology that enables Community Nursing Teams to liaise remotely by video link has been introduced.

The headsets work by allowing healthcare specialists to see through the eyes of each health professional and start dialogue during appointments via a secure live video link to seek realtime advice or a second opinion on how best to treat each patient during their consultation. Not only will this enable teams to enhance their care service, but it will also help avoid any delays by providing a much swifter treatment and unnecessary further appointments.