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‘looking to achieve operational efficiencies through improved data quality and care coordination, ensuring that patients are assessed and informed of outcomes within a 44-day period’.
Cathy Parsons, director of Clinical Services for iMSK at Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and (left) David Elliott, director for iMSK Services, received a Highly Commended certificate from IHEEM’s Pete Sellars.
and costs associated with Care Act 2014 and Continuing Health Care processes. Once fully rolled out, this will equate to approximately £7 million in savings per annum.
n Referral refusals have fallen from 15% to below 5% ‘because staff can see the real-time availability of resources/beds, and proactively match to patients’. ‘Ultimately, this means more patients are being dealt with in a timely manner’.
n Operational efficiencies seen through the solution’s automated workflows and alerts, ‘allowing staff to be proactive in dealing with a patient’.
A ‘paper-free world’
Louise Freeman, District Lead, Furness Social Care, said: “Strata is our norm, our best practice, and core to how we work. It offers us a paper-free world, with clarity on who, what, where, when, and how, to transition patients in Cumbria. As our resources in health and social care become increasingly pressurised, Strata has enabled staff to increase productivity and maintain critical safety and service levels to our citizens.” Nick McCarthy, Team manager, Cumbria Social Care, added: “Prior to the referral system we spent one morning a week going through errors and issues with referrals. Now, issues are immediately highlighted, and an audit trail ensures that we can rectify these quickly and transparently.” Strata Health says Morecambe Bay CCG now ‘continues to expand the roll- out’ of Strata PathWays, having recently deployed the Continuing Healthcare Workflow – which provides ‘a fast-track service for patients’, as well as a Continuing Healthcare Checklist, a decision support tool, and digital signing functionality. The CCG is
Multi-stranded energy project Two entrants – Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – were awarded Highly Commended Certificates. The former was commended for a Hospital Energy Project which, in a scheme undertaken by Vital Energi in tandem with the Trust, saw the ageing boilers at the city’s Churchill and John
Radcliffe Hospitals replaced with new boilers, a 4.5 MWe CHP system installed at the John Radcliffe Hospital, and a 2 km underground Energy Link built under local roads that transfers electricity, hot water, and communications, around both sites in a continuous loop. This ensures that all the energy is used at maximum efficiency. Over 6,400 light fittings at both hospitals have been updated and replaced, while in a variation to the original contract, the John Radcliffe Hospital’s 1970s chiller plants are currently being removed and new chiller equipment worth £2.5 million being installed to provide more efficient cooling and significantly reduce Legionella risk. The project is being financed over 25 years out of guaranteed savings, rather than from the Trust’s capital budget. Vital Energi has guaranteed savings of £461,746 per annum, from which the Trust will pay for the project. If the
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