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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.
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.
WhatsApp being down doesn’t have to be a patient safety issue
When WhatsApp went down, a tweet from an NHS doctor revealed the serious and potentially dangerous consequences of losing it for just a few hours. Dr Jo Garland discusses how to ensure losing WhatsApp isn’t a patient safety issue in the future and shares a crucial alternative to instant messaging apps.
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.
Patient experience - a building block for digital healthcare
The experience of my friend, and an NHS patient, Sue, has reinforced my view that there has never been a more urgent time to upgrade the tools staff are using to make their jobs less complicated and stressful, and more efficient.
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.