David Gunion, digital programme manager at Southern GP Alliance, helped us announce the ‘most promising pilot’ category.
Congratulations to Doccla UK Limited on your win!
Doccla partnered with East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust over a six-month pilot programme earlier this year to test an innovative care model for supporting heart failure patients to manage their condition at home through remote monitoring, guided self-management, and patient education. The pilot saw 30-day readmissions related to heart failure reduced from three to zero, saving £6,822 across 52 patients in three months. For the trust’s 4,176 registered heart failure patients, this is estimated to result in savings of ~£558,601 over 6 months. Results also showed reductions in total A&E contacts, non-elective inpatient contacts, and heart failure A&E contacts, and measurable improvements were seen in mobility, self-care, quality of life and improvement in anxiety and depression.
And for this category, the highly commended entry is Alternative Futures Group – congratulations! Their team led an innovative virtual reality project with patients to relieve distress caused by their symptoms.
