Making friends and influencing colleagues

Applying International learnings from the Canterbury Health System in the local context

Thursday 21st November

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Session aims

• Provide an overview of HealthPathways

• Summaries it’s implementation and impact to date

• Discuss local processes for the development of standardised pathways

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HealthPathways

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What Can HPs Do For You?

Supports and Enables

• Integrated Care Systems

• Improving Relationships and Trust

• Translating ‘policy into practice’

• Equitable access to healthcare

• Safer and higher quality healthcare

• More efficient and cost-effective health care across the system

• Saving of valuable time for patients and clinicians across the health

and social care system

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I believe we have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the

ultrasound requests we receive from GP’s. HP also allows us justification for rejecting requests now that the

referral guidelines are in place. Radiographer- South Tyneside

Hospital

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HP is local information which assures you that you get the most up to date information for your patient. We can often avoid referrals to hospital as we can find the answer in the consultations Dr Jon Tose (GP) Repository of information which supports primary care colleagues with decision making. Benefit is consistent management . We’ve seen a reduction in referrals and improvement in referral information. It’s a driver for whole systems change. Dr Shaz Wahid (Medical Director STFT)

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Questions….

• How are pathways; developed, disseminated and maintained in your

area?

• Are primary and secondary care clinicians at the centre of this process?

• What are the challenges you experience?

• What are the opportunities?