Super September aims to accelerate delivery of the elective recovery plan

According to latest figures, the overall elective waiting list stands at 6.6m, a number which has grown in part as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and its effect on occupancy and staff availability.

It is likely that the increased use of patient initiated follow ups (PIFU) will be a significant feature of the initiative. NHSE has set the target of cutting outpatient appointments by 25%, with PIFU at the front of that drive.

The NHS’s current most ambitious PIFU programme is being overseen at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust, with Liaison Group partners, Infinity Health, providing the task management platform to the project. Speaking about the project, Infinity Health CEO, Elliott Engers, stated: “We are proud to provide clinicians with a tool that gives them the confidence to safely scale Patient Initiated Follow-Up to more of their patients. We expect this project to significantly reduce unneeded follow-up appointments and provide the capacity needed to reduce waiting times for patients.”

Other acceleration projects have included Super Saturdays, collaboration amongst paediatric hospitals via the Children’s Hospital Alliance, and more. PIFU sits alongside these activities as a fully flexible approach to give patients and their families or carers the ability to arrange their own follow-up appointments as and when they need them – helping systems to manage waiting lists and to see patients most in need, faster.

To find out more about Liaison Workforce’s mii Tasks solution, powered by Infinity Health, and how the task management platform can support PIFU, please get in touch at info@liaisongroup.com