Patient Choice
Information for Acute Trust managers
Key questions that Acute Trusts need to address are:
- What will be the impact of Choice on your hospital?
- How will you promote your services to GPs and patients?
- How will you monitor your performance?
Dr Foster has the resources to help you produce high-quality information about your services based on intelligent analysis of referral patterns, community needs and up-to-date hospital performance data.
"Patient empowerment will lead to more competition between providers. We have changed things at the local hospital due to demand."
Wendy Sunney, Practice Manager, Tibshelf, Derbyshire
"Competition will improve the quality of service by raising awareness about standards and about the quality of service that is available."
Dr Mistry, Leicester
Our portfolio of management tools include:
- Hospital Referral Manager - maps potential hospital admissions across your local population and identifies referral patterns. Information can be analysed by diagnosis, procedure, time period and individual practice, enabling you to predict hospital activity and identify opportunities for additional uptake
- Hospital Activity Tracker - enables the financial analysis of all in-patient activity and fast benchmarking of efficiency (e.g. length of stay, excess bed days, potential bed day savings)
- Real Time Monitoring - benchmarks clinical outcomes with all England's Acute Trusts and provides process control alerts for divergent performance
- Health Needs Mapping - analyses user needs within your community and identifies high risk groups. This information can be used to predict demand and plan services
Dr Foster can also work with you to produce highly effective patient and GP-friendly information on your Trust's services, available in both printed and online formats.
For more information on how we can help you deliver, please contact Caroline Pike on 020 7330 0400 or email caroline.pike@drfoster.co.uk