April 23, 2021
April 23, 2021
Several NHS trusts in the Lancashire and South Cumbria region (UK) are working together with Parsek to establish remote electronic systems, for safer and coordinated care of cancer survivor patients. See how Colin Brown, Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, finds this as an opportunity to tackling the COVID-19 backlog.
“University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has worked with partner hospitals in Lancashire, Preston, Blackburn and Blackpool to establish remote electronic systems, for the safer care of cancer survivor patients, with breast, prostate and bowel cancer. This is a system provided by a European healthcare technology partner, Parsek, to provide a Lancashire and South Cumbria capability known as WelLPRES (Wellbeing Lancashire Person Record Exchange Service).
Clinical teams can safely monitor people on a defined cancer care pathway, avoiding unnecessary routine hospital clinic visits. Clinicians can follow patients along defined clinical care pathways and track their care against future planned events, such as a mammogram or a CT scan. Patients can access their records and clinical information, and they and their clinical team can also electronically message each other, to support safe clinical care, without necessarily requiring patients to come into hospital clinics.
We are also working on providing patient-initiated follow-up outpatient plans (where appropriate), whereby patients themselves define whether they need a follow-up appointment in the next 12 months or not. If they don’t, we avoid unnecessary disruption to their lives; but if they do, they can electronically book a clinic appointment with their speciality team at a time that suits them, without having to wait for booking staff to answer and action phone calls.
The Parsek system will link directly into the hospitals’ electronic patient information systems to make this happen. We are looking to get this system live in Morecambe Bay and then rapidly roll out for the patients and citizens in Preston, Blackburn and Blackburn by linking into their systems.”
Interested in knowing more about how Parsek’s solutions support patient engagement and streamline NHS staff’s workload in outpatient cancer pathways?
Find out more here: https://openline-vitaly.com/references/wellpres-cancer-recovery-programme.