My Clinical Outcomes Thrilled to Share Fix IT in Healthcare Prize With University Hospitals Sussex
11th December, 2023
Dr Anne Kinderlerer presents Dr Ollie Minton and Tim Williams with the prize
My Clinical Outcomes is thrilled to share the Fix IT in Healthcare Prize alongside Dr Ollie Minton, Rob Herriott and their incredible colleagues at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) to implement and scale Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) in routine NHS Cancer Care.
The Fix IT in Healthcare Prize rewards excellent innovation in digital healthcare, particularly digital initiatives that have, or promise to, improve patient safety and staff well-being within the NHS or healthcare more widely.
In September 2020, (UHS) implemented an Enhanced Supportive Care (ESC) trial with patients with cancer identified to possibly benefit from earlier access to supportive care identified by a new team on the acute wards. These patients were offered the use of the My Clinical Outcomes (MCO) web-app.
In this study patients benefitted from 5% fewer unplanned admissions with hospital stays also shorter by an average of 1.43 days. Furthermore, the results showed a return on investment with a benefit cost ratio of 1.4. Analysis by Unity Insights suggested that if the service was expanded for the South-East region the programme would deliver approximate savings of £11.2m over the course of five years.
Infographic from Unity Insights Enhanced Supportive Care Summary Report
The project has received huge support over the past few years from NHS England, Sussex Cancer Fund, Unity Insights, My University Hospitals Sussex, BMJ and many more groups. It is now being sustained and grown through ongoing collaboration with NHS Sussex ICB, which is scaling the routine and integrated use of PROMs to other clinical areas beyond oncology and enhanced supportive care.
“By putting patients in the driving seat, at the centre of their own care, allowing them to remotely track and report their symptoms more frequently, and combining that with specialist, supportive care services - we were able to spot and tackle issues more quickly and this in turn improved their quality of life and reduced their need for emergency care, which saved the NHS money. If this new technology enabled service were to be implemented nationally, it would be transformational for cancer patients and potentially save the NHS millions
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Find out more about the work with University Hospital Sussex in the Case Study page.