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How to prevent PIFU from making health inequalities worse
A major gap in the research and development of PIFU is whether and how it might affect health inequalities. Ahead of a HETT panel on PIFU, Elliott Engers writes about how digital platforms should be used to prevent the exacerbation of health inequalities through PIFU.
Virtual wards don't go far enough for patients or clinicians: we must bridge the gaps before winter
With virtual wards vital to the NHS’s ability to function this winter, three experts from Infinity Health, DrDoctor, and Feebris assess what is needed to bridge the gaps in provision ahead of increased winter demand.
How can we ensure clinical safety when digitising PIFU?
Read Dr Jo Garland’s views on how digitising PIFU and rolling it out nationally will help create clinical bandwidth to see the patients that really need it, when they need it. Crucially Jo writes about the clinical risks can be mitigated with a digital tool like Infinity.
How can PIFU reduce NHS waiting lists?
Patient Initiated Follow-Up - known as PIFU - is an alternative way to manage outpatients, moving away from regular in-person follow-up appointments which are often not necessary, towards appointments only when needed. Care can be personalised to suit individual patients.
What are virtual wards?
Appropriate digital tools are a key part of the NHS’s future and in the medium-term, virtual wards will be an important contributor to getting the NHS back on its feet after the pandemic. They will enable it to provide treatment to the patients that are waiting as a result of the backlog.
A digital solution for elective recovery in the NHS
Managing elective recovery is a complex process after a serious health crisis with a very tired and reduced workforce. Dr Jo Garland discusses key challenges to elective recovery, and technologies that can support this objective.
Why the NHS needs to move to digital task management now
Following a year of unthinkable strain on the NHS, there is consensus now, more than ever, that healthcare workers deserve more support. It’s clear to me that a move towards the digitisation of clinical and operational tasks will assist in facilitating what has now become a necessity.
How virtual wards can help reduce the NHS backlog
Utilising virtual wards has the benefit of reducing delays to hospital discharges and freeing up hospital beds so more patients can be operated on, whilst still supporting recovery in a way that is safely managed by medical professionals.