CCG alert: virtual consultation

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30 September 2021

COVID-19 patient safety response
National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes September 2021

An examination of the roll-out of COVID Oximetry @home and COVID virtual wards, both designed to allow vulnerable people’s care to be managed safely at home. The report highlights ten areas of learning from the process of setting up and spreading these programmes at pace, and practices that may be useful for the future delivery of rapid safer care initiatives.

For research and resources around virtual/remote consultation see the companion blog.

Safeguarding in Virtual Consultations for Primary Care
Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire CCG 2 October 2020

Advice to all GPs about the consideration of Safeguarding in all virtual consultations, including both phone and video calls.

This project, based in the largest Island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, describes the use of a codesign model to improve the NHS Near Me video consulting platform for delivery of outpatient appointments in the patient’s home.

Digital health: the changing landscape of how we access GP services
AXA PPP Healthcare and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) July 2020

This report explores the scope for general practice services to further embrace digitally delivered care and support to patients. It looks at how offering online consultations as a first point of contact could increase efficiencies by reserving face-to-face consultations for those identified as needing them – a message that has been reinforced since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): remote care through telehealth
Cochrane Special Collections 6 May 2020 updated 22 July 2020

Telehealth refers to the provision of personalized health care over a distance. It embraces synchronous and asynchronous interactions including consulting by phone, instant messaging, video, text message, or web-based services.
This Special Collection includes Cochrane Reviews that address using telehealth to support clinical management of various conditions, including asthma, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, reproductive health, and skin cancer. It includes reviews of using telehealth to provide carer and parent support as well as empowering patient self-management of their long-term condition.

A Step-by-Step Toolkit for Getting Telepsychiatry Ready, Set & Go
CWTCH: Connecting with Telehealth to Communities and Hospitals in Healthcare

The CWTCH (Connecting with Telehealth to Communities and Hospitals in Healthcare) project was funded by the Health Foundation to implement telepsychiatry in the CAMHS in Gwent, South Wales. The initial pilot in Aneurin Bevan UHB offered young people who self-harm, or who live with an eating disorder, the option of remote assessment through a virtual online clinic, in the company of family members.
The Toolkit is intended to provide a systematic way of approaching telepsychiatry, regardless of the video consultation platform used, in order to overcome potential barriers and enable successful implementation in the mental health setting in the United Kingdom. The purpose of this toolkit is to support mental health professionals to implement telepsychiatry in their own settings.

This website includes a range of resources aimed at supporting colleagues / partners in the planning and implementation of non face-to-face models of care.
News release: UCL Partners launch new guide on how to set-up non face-to-face clinics