Today, the Government published its 10 Year Health Plan for England.
The plan aims to fundamentally reinvent the approach to healthcare and focuses on three shifts:
- From hospital to community
- From analogue to digital
- From treatment to prevention
A spokesperson for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust said:
‘Here at NUH, we are already delivering on these three shifts, tackling waiting times and improving care. Here are just some of the ways we are making improvements:
- Using AI to diagnose prostate cancer – helping us to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis, reducing turnaround times which results in quicker treatment.
- Opening the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) – to be launched later this year for patients across the East Midlands, the NRC aims to transform UK rehabilitation. The cost of treating each patient will save £500,000 in health and social care costs.
- Using virtual wards – a digital alternative to hospital care supported by an expect clinical consultant team.
- Improved discharge – processes and collaboration with Nottinghamshire social care have resulted in two wards’ worth of beds being freed up.
- Maximising theatre and planned care space – from dual-operating theatres to high-intensity theatre lists and 24-hour surgery, our teams are delivering more procedures and reducing waiting lists using innovative practices.
- Electronic patient record – we’re consolidating existing paper-based and digital systems into a single integrated electronic patient record, moving to an intuitive solution that allows clinicians to efficiently review and enter timely patient information.
- Respiratory clinic for the homeless – a dedicated clinic in the community supporting admission avoidance for some of the most vulnerable patients in our communities.
- Specialist antenatal clinics – for women with diabetes and female genital mutilation have moved from our hospitals to the community, improving access and attendance.
- Orthopaedic Frailty Admission and Discharge Unit – the first in the UK, the unit is a space for older patients with critical injuries. Patients benefit from improved outcomes, and it helps to relieve pressures in the emergency department.
