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This conference focuses on reducing unnecessary follow-ups, delivering patient initiated follow up and repurposing clinician capacity into valuable activity which is essential to combat current demand and waiting list. The conference will support you to set up or expand patient initiated follow up whilst ensuring patient safety, and reduce unnecessary follow up appointments in line with national requirements.
“Patient initiated follow-up (PIFU) is key to personalising outpatient care, and by enabling patients to have more control over when they receive care, can reduce unnecessary follow-up appointments and make best use of clinical time.”
The 2022/23 operational planning guidance asks systems to:
• Accelerate progress already made towards a more personalised approach to follow up care, reducing outpatient follow ups by a minimum of 25% against 2019/20 activity levels by March 2023.
• Expand the uptake of PIFU in all major outpatient specialties, moving or discharging 5% of outpatient attendances to PIFU pathways by March 2023
Each provider and system have been asked to reduce outpatient follow-up appointments by a minimum of 25% by March 2023 compared to 2019/20 baseline
We witnessed a step change in how outpatient care is delivered: clinicians, staff and services quickly adapted to new approaches that will improve patient experience of outpatient services now and in the future. Patient initiated follow-up (PIFU) is one of these positive changes. It empowers patients to take control of their care – and ensures they can see a specialist sooner than planned if they need to, as well as avoid an unnecessary trip to hospital if they have no need to be seen. It also helps clinicians manage their waiting lists in a safe and effective way. For patients, this means more choice and flexibility around when they access care. For clinicians, it means fewer appointments of low clinical value, freeing up time to support the patients most in need. Providers should make this change because it is right for patients, staff and the longterm sustainability of outpatient services. I encourage you to use the advice and practical support in this implementation guidance to adopt PIFU safely and effectively across your services.
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to transform and personalise follow up
- Develop effective strategies for tackling demand in outpatients
- Learn from established practice delivering effective follow up
- Implement Patient Initiated Follow up
- Understand how to ensure patient safety through developing safety nets, red flags and patient tracking
- Ensure clinical validation of patient suitability
- Improve Patient Engagement and Shared Decision Making in Follow Up
- Learn from established practice in risk stratified follow up in cancer survivorship
- Improve practice and capacity in using PROMs and remote consultations to monitor patients
- Reflect on case studies from various specialties
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
