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Self management
Digital support for patients seeking self-help resources when they are needed the most
- Digital self-management and self-referral for musculoskeletal complaints in London
- Virtual fracture clinic for patients with acute bone injury not requiring immediate on-call review
- Virtual management of an education and exercise programme for chronic joint pain
- Using text messages to communicate with patients in a musculoskeletal service during COVID-19
- Transforming community venues and leisure centres into musculoskeletal (MSK) health and wellbeing hubs
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Referral management
Provide advice and guidance and self-referral to receive virtual advice easily
- Musculoskeletal first contact practitioner services in primary care
- Self-referral for musculoskeletal complaints in Sussex
- Digital self-management and self-referral for musculoskeletal complaints in London
- Rapid implementation of virtual clinics due to COVID-19
- Virtual fracture clinic for patients with acute bone injury not requiring immediate on-call review
- Video consultations in North Tyneside Integrated Musculoskeletal Service
- Virtual multi-disciplinary team meeting to support staff to deliver care and advice remotely
- Using text messages to communicate with patients in a musculoskeletal service during COVID-19
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Primary care
Early access to diagnostics and advice for primary care: support for staff with quick advice, including advanced communication tools and image sharing where helpful
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Diagnostics
Remote reporting on diagnostics: shared care records and diagnostic networks that support sharing of patient information
- Musculoskeletal first contact practitioner services in primary care
- Digital self-management and self-referral for musculoskeletal complaints in London
- Rapid implementation of virtual clinics due to COVID-19
- Virtual fracture clinic for patients with acute bone injury not requiring immediate on-call review
- Virtual multi-disciplinary team meeting to support staff to deliver care and advice remotely
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Outpatients
Streamlined digital pathways: booking appointments (most are virtual) and messaging of clinical teams managed through portals and remote platforms
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Surgery/inpatient
Pre-operative assessment and collection of post-operative clinical outcomes and prehabilitation resources for patients
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Community services and rehabilitation
Digital solutions to enable urgent and routine referrals to secondary care and to support shared decision making for diagnostics, support physiotherapy management and rehabilitation for patients
- Using technology to offer remote consultations to patients
- Web-based exercise prescription to provide home exercise programmes
- Virtual management of an education and exercise programme for chronic joint pain
- Video consultations in North Tyneside Integrated Musculoskeletal Service
- Virtual multi-disciplinary team meeting to support staff to deliver care and advice remotely
- Using text messages to communicate with patients in a musculoskeletal service during COVID-19
- Remote pain management programme for persistent musculoskeletal pain
- Rehabilitation after knee replacement surgery using remote monitoring and wearable technology
- Reducing inpatient bed days by moving pre and postoperative orthopaedic care to the home
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Discharge
Providing accurate information and supporting people to manage their own condition following discharge
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Patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) after discharge
Digital ways to support patients booked for a PIFU appointment using agreed criteria