Potential Savings

For Therapies teams operating across large geographical areas there are opportunities to refine processes and reduce operating costs, however these vary significantly between Trusts.

Challenges

The challenges relating to the provision of Community Care include:

• Managing petrol and mileage costs
• Wasted time travelling to pick up paper notes from a central base
• Physical duplication of paper notes to take into the Community
• Large amounts of administrative effort pulling paper notes
• Accounting for clinical activity
  

Solution

Community and Domiciliary staff using Therapy Manager can:

• Securely download all required patient information onto a local database
• Clinically assess patients out in the Community
• Use the Google Maps function to estimate travel times, distances and costs
• Upload the information back onto the central server instantaneously
• Record and account for clinical time and travel associated with Community Care

Business Case

Providing clinicians with the mechanism to record activity and assess in a non-clinic setting can lead to savings through.

• Reduced administrative time pulling paper records
• Reduced travel and mileage costs as a result of improved journey planning
• Reduced paper and printing costs from note duplication
• Better capacity management
• Reduce clinical time spent on travel and note preparation
  

The exact benefits can be calculated using Pathway Software’s Business Case tool.