Building the Foundations for a Condition-Specific, Complex-Care Digital Platform to Support Data Exchange, Self-Management and Reduce Waiting Lists in Neuroscience Patients
The number of people with long-term conditions and multi-morbidities is rising faster than capacity to manage them. Better self-management and remote care with monitoring capabilities can free up capacity and support the creation of sustainable, quality services that can be delivered remotely and in a manner better suited to service users and maximise the capacity and impact of scarce “face to face” clinical time.
As part of an ongoing programme of work this project aims to build a patient facing digital platform across the Greater Manchester single-provider regional neurology service (including MS, Headache and Epilepsy) and integrate this with existing electronic records.
The UoS will work with patients and Health Care Professionals of the Northern Care Alliance to:
- Assess readiness for change by examining the barriers and facilitators to implementing digital technology at this scale.
- Evaluate the facilitators and barriers as the technology is deployed.
- Analyse patient engagement with the system pilot testing PREMs and PROMs and tools to measure self-management.
- Examine the usefulness and acceptability of the system and required processes for clinical staff.
Funder: NHSX and Northern Care Alliance
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