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The NHS Elective Recovery Strategy sets out ambitious targets for elective care, at a time when demand and waiting lists are still at substantial levels.
This national conference aims to bring together leaders of outpatient services to focus on transforming and personalising outpatient services in line with the NHS Elective Recovery Strategy. The conference continues with an extended in depth masterclass which will include interactive group work focusing on Improving capacity, access, patient flow and waiting times in outpatient services. The conference will focus on personalised outpatient follow up, tailoring a patient’s follow up care to their individual clinical needs, preferences and circumstances. The conference will have an extended focus on Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU) and improving and increasing capacity in remote consultations which can both increase capacity in outpatients.
Nearly 25% of all outpatient appointments are now being held remotely, the pandemic proving that remote consultations are a safe and effective way of delivering patient care… Remote Consultations Improves patient’s experiences of care, improving access through increased flexibility in how they interact with healthcare, saving them time and money and reducing the stress of travelling to their appointments.
We must focus capacity on those with the most urgent needs and those who have been waiting a long time for care, making best use of valuable staff time and resources. This will require changing models of care. One of the pillars of this approach is to deliver a personalised outpatient model that better meets individual patient need and improves quality of care and patient outcomes. It is anticipated that this will enable providers to re-purpose clinical time from outpatient follow-up (OPFU) appointments where clinically appropriate to, and beneficial do so… 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.
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to transform and personalise outpatient services
- Develop effective strategies for tackling demand in outpatients
- Learn from established practice delivering effective outpatient services
- Understand the personalised outpatient model and what needs to change in your outpatient service
- Implement Patient Initiated Follow up
- Develop your skills in improving capacity, access, patient flow and waiting times in outpatient services
- Improve practice and capacity in remote consultations
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
