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Transforming Outpatient Care with Our Digital Platform

Giving patients rapid access to specialist clinicians while reducing waiting times, costs, and unnecessary appointments for NHS Trusts and private providers.

Rethinking the Traditional Outpatient Pathway

Conventional outpatient pathways are often inefficient, leading to long waiting times for patients and a significant administrative burden for clinical teams. Unnecessary appointments consume valuable clinician time and resources, while patients face the inconvenience of travel and time off work. Our digital-first approach is designed to solve these challenges head-on.

Fully AWS cloud-based, our award-winning web-based platform collects everything we need to know about a patient in order for a clinician to make a diagnosis, facilitate imaging and testing and provide conservative treatments.

Against traditional physical clinics, we achieve:

  • 90% hit rate to right clinician, first time
  • 30% fewer diagnostics
  • 30% fewer surgical interventions
 

Avoiding the need to attend multiple appointments, at physical facilities, our online platform collects everything that a clinician would traditionally do from physical clinics, and more and all at the convenience and control of the patient.

Virtual Services

Digital Triage

Patients are asked to complete a short series of questions to capture information for specialist review. 

Specialist Assessment

Information supplied by the patient is reveiwed by a specialist asynchronously. This can be prioritised by urgency and designated to the member of the team most appropriate to review the patient’s case. 

Virtual Consultations

Patients triaged to an appointment can choose to have a telephone, video, or face to face appointment. For patients choosing virtual consultations, they can connect with the clinician via the web-based application. Clinicians have all the patient’s relevant history so they can provide a diagnosis and management plan or refer the patient on for diagnostics or a face-to-face consultation. All notes are recorded in real time and an appointment letter is generated and shared with the patient, GP, and local hospital instantly.

Pre-assessment

Before the consultation, patients are prompted to complete some general health questions and some problem-specific questions. This allows the clinician to have a good understanding of the patient’s problem prior to the consultation.

Patient-Initiated Follow-Ups

PIFU (or Patient Initiated Follow-ups) can be arranged and conducted within Virtual Lucy. Patients managing their own treatment can arrange appointments with a clinician of their choice as and when the need arises.

Pathway Redesign

Our team of clinical and technical experts will design a service-specific pathway to improve efficiency and deliver the best possible care. Our pathways are always lean, innovative, and comply with all safety and governance regulations.

Virtual Specialities

Live specialties:

New specialities coming soon:

Virtual Benefits

Slash Waiting Lists: By facilitating patient prioritisation and managing demand more effectively, you can make significant progress on your elective recovery targets.

Optimise Clinician Time: Free up your specialist consultants from unnecessary consultations, allowing them to focus on the patients who need their expertise most.

Enhance Patient Care: Provide patients with faster access to specialist opinions and clear, personalised care plans, improving their experience and outcomes.

Drive Efficiency: Reduce the costs and administrative overhead associated with unnecessary appointments and streamline your entire outpatient service.

What do our users say about our platform?

Clinician
"I’ve done the telephone consultations that were sent over to me.  They all went very well and I think the patients found it to be a very positive experience, particularly in the current environment where face-to-face consultations are not available."
Patient
"Excellent and thorough process. Far easier than dealing with our localGP surgery"
Patient
"I was relieved to at last speak to someone who understood my condition. I had been seeing a physio who was I believe making my condition worse by giving me advanced exercises. The team has given me basic stretches and simple exercises and the results have been very good. After a short time I was pain free and sleeping much better.’"
Patient
"I would like to thank the team for all their help with a recent injury I had. I had 3 audio appointments with a clinician, and in all 3 he was very informative, clear, and encouraging in his diagnosis and treatment. He explained very clearly, what the problem was and how it would be treated.  He also sent me precise details of exercises that would help my recovery!"
Clinician
"I have nothing but good things to say about the system and the new team I am building are all really happy with the work and are eager to provide extra hours where we needed."
Clinician
"I want to convey to you the incredibly responsive and supportive administrative support team at HBSUK. Everyone I have spoken to (usually late evenings during my clinic) have been very helpful in sorting out things for me. I was especially impressed with their quick response time for additional information or when things needed to be sorted out. "
Patient
"I had a wonderful patient experience with HBSUK. I really appreciate how different teams had come together to make my journey as smooth as it was."