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Airedale NHS Trust & Involve Telemedicine Service set to Save NHS Trust £Millions


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27 Aug, 2013, 11:45 GMT

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LONDON, August 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --



Positive findings of a study on how telemedicine could help save the NHS millions of pounds and keep people with long-term health conditions out of hospital were revealed to delegates at a think tank worldwide conference.

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Consultant Dr Richard Pope presented the results of delivering care using secure video links to manage chronic illness effectively at the Kings Fund Third Annual International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2013 on behalf of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust in London.

Airedale Hospital has a Telehealth Hub on site which connects to over 1,000 patients in 33 residential and nursing homes via secure video links which allows them to have face-to-face consultations with nurses and doctors 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Patients can view the consultants by the use of a simple mobile video system. The Trust has worked with technical partners Involve-Visual to make the project a success.

Airedale's study looked at 17 nursing and residential care homes linked to the trust's 24 hour Telemedicine Hub. It compared a 12-month period before the introduction of telemedicine with a 12-month period after it was used.

The findings were that for residents in care homes linked up to the telemedicine hub were that:

  • Hospital admissions dropped by 45%
  • Length of stay in hospital dropped by 30%
  • Total use of bed days (the number of hospital bed days used by the cohort over the year) dropped by 60%
  • Use of A&E dropped by 69%

Comparative data from residents in care homes that do not use telemedicine shows their hospital admissions increased by 11%, length of stay had risen by 7% and total use of bed days was up 18%.

If admissions are reduced by around 20%, this saves the health economy between £310,000 and £1.06m per year.

As part of the study, managers of all the homes were asked whether they believed that there had been a reduction in the number of admissions to hospital and A&E since telemedicine had gone live on their premises and everyone agreed that this was the case.

Dr Richard Pope, consultant at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: "The aim of our work has been to use technology to provide reliable, safe and effective round-the-clock care to patients with long term conditions who are spread throughout our local area and further afield.

"These results are really positive and show that using teleconsultation in this way has huge benefits for managers of care homes and carers who feel reassured they can quickly get expert help - but more importantly for patients, who would prefer to be cared for in their own environment than taken into hospital.

"A further benefit is the substantial reduction is the need for both hospital admissions and A&E care which results in considerable financial savings for the local health economy.

"I'm optimistic that a controlled trial in the future will give us even more evidence of the success of telemedicine."

Currently over 1,000 patients across Airedale Hospital's catchment area are linked to the Telehealth Hub including those with chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and diabetes. It provides them with specialist medical care at the touch of a button 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week.

  • Telemedicine is being used by 33 nursing and residential care homes in the local area. A further 30 as well as number of GP practices will be connected throughout July and August 201
  • Manorlands Hospice for seriously ill patients is connected with the Hub along with six local GP surgeries.
  • Airedale provides 20 prisons throughout the country with clinical opinion and diagnosis using telemedicine. This covers a range of health problems including serious situations from our skilled A&E consultants and second opinions on other medical conditions via scheduled appointments with consultants. This service has been established over a 7 year period and evidence shows that costly prisoner transfers can be reduced by up to as much as 50%.
  • During its first 11 months, Airedale's Telehealth Hub has avoided 124 admissions, saving over £330,000. It also avoided the need for face-to-face clinic appointments on 94 occasions.

Airedale and Involve have recently launched a joint venture organisation, which they have branded Immedicare. The company is focusing on expanding these services right across the UK, potentially saving millions of pounds and just as importantly, helping to relive the huge pressure that is being put onto the Emergency Departments up and down the country. 

More news is available in Telehealth Talk http://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/GPs/Newsletter.html

or by contacting Michael Roach at Involve at mroach@involve-visual.com

http://www.involve-visual.com

For additional comment please contact Andrew Wigmore +44(0)7958-913771

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