Secure online patient engagement portal, with appointment management, waiting list validation and more dramatically reduces manual admin, and improves the patient experience.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides acute hospital services to a population of around 600,000 patients across Hampshire and west Berkshire. With DNA rates high, this had an enormous impact, increasing both costs and waiting times.
HHFT were posting appointment letters to patients and had over 8,000 different letter templates to manage. Sending letters was inconsistent and a costly admin burden. There was no guarantee letters would arrive on time, if at all, causing patients to call the hospital and rearrange their appointment or simply forget about the appointment. A whole heap of appointment slots were being wasted.
The Trust also undertook a patient survey which identified that 75% of patients would prefer appointment notifications by email or SMS. This confirmed that Hampshire needed to make it more convenient for patients to digitally manage their own appointments, empower patients to be more involved with their care and also to reduce DNAs.
To meet the needs and preferences of patients, as well as reducing the admin burden and postage costs created by patient letters, HHFT deployed Patient Hub. This is our patient engagement portal, offering appointment notifications, waiting list validation, Patient Initiated Follow-up (PIFU) and NHS App integration.
“We are already seeing the positive impact of this work for our patients, and the time staff previously spent on sending out appointment letters is being used to better support patients and make the most of every available appointment.”
Alex Whitfield
Chief Executive, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
“We are hugely excited by this leap forward and strongly believe that this will help our patients to be better supported in their care.”
Dr Tamara Everington
Haematology Consultant and Associate Medical Director, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
79%
patient uptake
65%
patient uptake in first 3 months
39%
reduction in DNAs
9.15%
of patients removed from waiting lists
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