HUC runs the NHS 111 telephone line and General Practitioner (GP) out-of-hours services for over 3.3 million people in the East of England, both of which are crucial components of the NHS’s urgent care response. Around 20% of patients who use these telephone services still need to be seen in person, but face-to-face consultations place both patients and clinicians at risk of coronavirus infection.
Traditional GP Video Consultations (VCs) need to be pre-scheduled. This does not suit the urgent care environment where patients make contact on an impromptu basis, and the need for a VC may only become apparent mid-consultation.
HUC needed a solution that would enable its services to offer ad-hoc VCs to patients, replacing face-to-face consultations where possible. This would minimize the spread of coronavirus and maintain clinicians’ privacy while working from home.
storm® improves the reliability of remote clinical decisions.
storm enables better management of cases with no need to see face-to-face.
storm reduces physical resources required and therefore lowers costs to run services.
Janice Greenhill - Chief Operating Officer at HUC
"With UK lockdown measures in place and growing fears over the risks of face-to-face consultations, our over-the-phone urgent care services have been more popular than ever. We needed a way to make video consultations a realistic option for our services, thereby minimizing in person contact while ensuring patients can be assessed properly.
Having worked with Content Guru and used their storm platform for 5 years, we were confident they would be able to provide us with a solution. The team worked quickly to roll out video consultations for our clinicians, an easy-to-use application which is now widely utilized by our teams.”
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