Clinical Governance: An International Journal: Volume 20 Issue 3

Saving lives through effective patient engagement around NHS health checks

Tobias Alpsten

Putting behavioural insights theory into practice a trial in Southwark using iPLATO Hub to communicate with over 13,000 patients concluded that the right combination of text…

The economics of health service transformation: A business model for care coordination for chronic condition patients in the UK and US

Boris T Rachev

This is a report on a recent development of an innovative coordinated care solution named the Care Coordination Centre (CCC), which targets coordinated care arrangements for a…

Community care reaches out for the mobile moment

Simon Wallace

The purpose of this paper is to explore the quite extraordinary way the phenomena of mobile communication has gripped our society and the opportunities this provides for…

Building analytic skills to drive improvements in patient care and organisational decision making: An information analysts’ development programme

Glen Howard, Alex Walker, Dominick E Shaw, James Hatton

This paper briefly outlines a development programme designed to improve the skills of NHS Information Analysts and assesses the extent these skills have been developed. There are…

Telemedicine in care homes in Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven

Nick Hex, Justin Tuggey, Dianne Wright, Rebecca Malin

– The purpose of this paper is to observe and analyse the effects of the use of telemedicine in care homes on the use of acute hospital resources.

“Teleswallowing”: a case study of remote swallowing assessment

Elaine Bidmead, Tilly Reid, Alison Marshall, Veronica Southern

Telemedicine has enabled speech and language therapists (SLTs) to remotely assess swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) experienced by nursing home residents. The new technique…

Digital healthcare: its high priests and orphans

Nick Harrop