An online platform which aims to provide targeted information for patients waiting for elective surgeries and give them extra support and transparency is due to be launched by the NHS.
The aim of My Planned Care is to ensure patients are better supported ahead of their planned surgery. Patients and their carers will be given access to tailored information and personalised plans developed in partnership with clinicians. This will include details of waiting times for their provider to ensure full transparency.
Ahead of elective surgery, NHS patients can be given the most appropriate personalised support to help them prepare. This could include advice on prevention services such as stop smoking or diet and exercise plans.
The move will help to ensure that patients are as fit as possible for surgery so that cancellations are minimised, deterioration in a patient’s condition is prevented and patients are in the best shape possible to aid their post-surgery recovery.
Sajid Javid, health and social care secretary, said: “At the height of the pandemic the NHS rightly focused on treating covid-19 patients, but sadly it has meant waiting lists have risen – and the covid backlog is going to keep rising.
“This platform, combined with our record funding to tackle the backlog and invest in innovative diagnosis and treatment will help us ensure access to life changing care and support for people no matter who they are or where they live.”
Patients will be able to access the new platform when it goes live via NHS.UK, and the information will be available at any point in the patient care pathway. Longer-term it is expected that the service will be moved so it’s delivered through the NHS App.
The launch of the platform is part of a wider plan to tackle the backlog of elective care resulting from the covid-19 pandemic. As well as My Planned Care, the NHS is also rolling out more than 100 community diagnostic centres and additional surgical hubs, thanks to billions of pounds of extra investment.
The NHS has provided over £34 billion extra to help fund reforms in health and care services in response to the Covid pandemic. Of that, £1.5 billion was earmarked to tackle elective surgery, which includes £500 million capital funding to increase theatre capacity and the use of technology.
12 February 2022 @ 10:48
Extract from NHS Delivery Plan for tackling the Covid-19 backlog of elective care February 2022
As provided by Sky News
Establishing a national network for people waiting a long time
We will establish a new national network for long waiters, managed by the national NHS team and giving systems across all NHS regions a treatment alternative for patients, which will include NHS or NHS-funded independent sector capacity. This may be for patients who are waiting for highly complex procedures, or where significant capacity challenges exist. Patients taking up appointments away from their local hospital will be offered a comprehensive support package, including transport and accommodation where necessary.
Targeted support will be offered to local areas with specific challenges in treating patients waiting for two years or more. This may involve brokering the movement of clinical teams into local systems to undertake complex procedures, or the provision of dedicated support to establish teams to build local management functions to co-ordinate the movement of services and patients.
We will design and implement an approach over the remainder of 2021/22, which will build on the current legal rights to choice, going live by the end of March 2022.
The support provided to patients who have been waiting the longest for treatment will be reinforced. Patients who have been waiting 18 months or longer will now be re-reviewed every three months, as a minimum, until they receive treatment or get discharged. This will be subject to ongoing review as numbers of patients waiting over two years reduce.
11 February 2022 @ 12:05
This will not be for the benefit of the general population. It is all part of the plan to depopulate the world. So only the survival of the fittest, most intelligent and useful will be of interest, and those qualities may be totally different to how they are considered by the public. The ones marked for survival will be complicit, obedient, and non-complainers, ready to just sit back and accept their lot and obey. Welcome to the NWO.
9 February 2022 @ 22:06
In our hospital in Stoke on Trent its not only waiting on the list its waiting fir the operating theatre to be opened for orthopaedic surgery. Its been closed throughout the covid period.
8 February 2022 @ 13:05
When?
And will those waiting two years for specialist orthopaedic surgery be treated in turn or will the easy to deal with issues be done to speed up the reduction rate. My normally fit wife has been in a wheelchair for two years waiting for a complicated ankle fracture repair and can’t be expected to wait another two years. Please find out priorities.
9 February 2022 @ 13:36
i`m in the same boat, first so the consultant 4 years ago got referred back to first consultant messed about for a year their ,then went back to the other consultant that said he could do the surgery been waiting 18 months now for a date but overall its been 4 years