Innovation Test Bed DPS

Innovative partners with novel products relevant to Mid and South Essex FT and local system strategic priorities, where a project is identified and agreed as suitable for the Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership. Current priorities include reducing demand for face to face outpatient care, improving patent empowerment and self-care, workforce experience and digital alternatives to acute care.

Partnership with clinical and digital services at MSE FT to develop a shared solution for digital triage involving patient-derived content, supporting underlying scoring algorithms and direct integration with both primary and secondary care EHR platforms

Design and delivery of a system which supports patient pre-consultation questionnaires and pre-consultation diagnostics.

Partnership with clinical and digital services at MSE FT to develop an ‘all digital’ advice and guidance referral pathway, compatible with ways of working locally, using asynchronous messaging and “phone a consultant’ options

Working with MSE to build infrastructure to support patient initiated follow up and clinician remote patient monitoring, including creation of personalised health and care plans for all patients and sign-posting to condition specific health literature / videos and clearly articulated warning indicators to help patients self-manage conditions and identify when they need to seek clinical input.

Partnership with clinical and digital services at MSE FT to develop a shared solution for patient access to their clinical record, directly integrated patient self-service for appointments, digital letter delivery and, where relevant, connected device and asynchronous messaging support for patients.