It is estimated that 27% of GP appointments could be avoided if better technology was used to coordinate between GPs and services.
Patients suffering from social exclusion, debt anxiety, poor diet or lack of exercise are often responsible for repeat appointments, using valuable GP time. If these underlying problems were handled through other support services, overstretched GPs could focus on patients with complex medical conditions.
Adur & Worthing Councils, West Sussex County Council and the Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) partnered to set up a new scheme. “Going Local” aimed at getting people out of GP surgeries and refer them to non-medical community services instead.
Social prescribing became the first project that Adur & Worthing Councils dealt with using Liberty Create. They knew low-code could streamline processes for Going Local. Their team built the new digital solution in just weeks, providing:
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Case management for referred patients
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A service directory for matching patients to the right services
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Appointments, reminders, communications tools to keep everyone in the loop
The Adur & Worthing digital team, formed of citizen developers and traditional IT staff, was now ready to turn their low-code skills to other projects.
Providing low-code enabled Innovation-as-a-Service for the council’s evolving requirements, they tackled the next series of issues:
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Improving tenant services with housing repairs
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Agile development for waste services
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Delivering improved asset management
Adur & Worthing deployed Citizen Hub, our full-stack, low-code case management, workflow and process automation solution for councils.
Citizen Hub provides access to valuable apps which are designed specifically for local government which are built on Liberty Create. As Adur & Worthing were already proficient at developing in low-code, this helped them to speed up process development even more, using the pre-built out-of-the-box apps and tailoring them to their exact need.
This ensures constant, fast and cost-effective improvement of services for the councils.
Encouraging early results led the CCG to extend the pilot to a two-year scheme. It also set up a steering group rolled out a plan to start a service user group.
Adur & Worthing Councils went on to bring Going Local to the Netcall Community AppShare as an independent Liberty Create accelerator. They were the first local government community member to do so, and it is now available to other councils using Liberty Create to download and customise.