Digital Health March 14, 2024
Technology from Consultant Connect helped keep 150,000 elderly and frail patients out of hospital last year, by connecting primary care clinicians with specialists for expert advice.
The telemedicine provider’s technology is helping to speed up communication between GPs, paramedics and other primary care clinicians, and specialist consultants who are able to provide tailored advice from anywhere in the country.
During 2023, 200,000 calls were made using Consultant Connect about elderly patients. In 75% of the cases, the patient didn’t require a trip to hospital as a result. Around 5,000 of those calls were made using the dedicated acute frailty line for patients with particularly complex needs – and it was successful in treating 60% of those patients without a hospital...
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