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There is abundant waste and inefficiency in our current outpatient model, with high repetition and duplication of effort. This leads to a loss of staff productivity due to wasted time, and patient confusion in navigating their care. If we are to transform outpatient care and bring it into the 21st century, we should start with something as simple as fixing our communication. In this piece, I want to examine where there is room for improvement.

Conversations about AI and how it will revolutionise the way the NHS delivers care are everywhere these days. In this blog, I’ll go through some of the key considerations regarding the use of AI in primary care, so that we can tackle the challenges that will bring the most impactful benefits.

With NHS funding flat in real terms for 2024/25 and a mountain still to climb to recover core services post-pandemic, NHS England’s Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance for 2024/25 calls for a focus on delivering more for patients with the resources available. Accurx’s Sarah Garner looks at five ways digital patient questionnaires can be utilised to increase service productivity.

Communication between primary and secondary care remains a fundamental but often overlooked driving force of patient care in the NHS today. In this blog, we'll take a look at the effect this has on patients, NHS staff and the system as a whole, before discussing what better cross-care setting communication looks like.

At Accurx, we need to understand healthcare, the people who work in it and the people who access it. We have spent thousands of hours with healthcare professionals, experiencing the way they work and gathering their insights at a local level. But sometimes we need to gather feedback at scale, and to do this, we commit to an annual user survey. Here are the results!

With cancer services facing an ever growing number of urgent suspected cancer referrals, achieving national waiting time standards is challenging. Accurx’s Sarah Garner looks at how starting with a few simple steps to improve communication with patients can improve performance against the 28 day Faster Diagnosis Standard.