Key Facts

The key benefits of implementing an Advice and Guidance process are: – Reducing lengthy waiting times – By treating more patients locally, we can ensure only the patient who NEED to be seen are on the waiting list. – Providing a better level of care in the community ¬– By supporting primary care with specialist knowledge, Advice and Guidance improves the level of a patient’s treatment locally. – Reducing hospital capacity – Advice and Guidance can ensure that hospitals are only seeing and treating patients at the right stage of their clinical progression. – Improved quality of referrals – Thanks to the clinical guidance provided and patients being recommended referral by hospital specialists, the quality of referrals being received is improved. – Begin treating patients – Many patients will experience a lengthy waiting time however; the primary care clinician can begin treating the patient locally before they are seen in secondary care. – Financial Savings – By avoiding unnecessary first outpatient appointments, health care departments can save much-needed finances on mitigated appointments. – Reduce unnecessary travel – Advice and Guidance solutions can prevent patients from travelling great distances for treatment that could have been managed locally. – Improved knowledge – By supporting primary care and providing expert clinical guidance, the process is also improving the primary care clinicians’ knowledge on how best to treat their patients. • To date, Kinesis has seen over 120,400 patient-related conversations go through the system, with over 73,000 saving a secondary care referral. • Kinesis currently has over 50 live specialities as well as numerous sub-specialities. • Kinesis has 3900 GPs and 893 Consultants registered to the system, serving a population of over 1,550,000 patients. • Kinesis has 270 GP practices registered on the system who can seek clinical Advice & Guidance from 10 secondary care and community providers. • Kinesis has helped our clients and the NHS to save over £15million • 61% of patient-related messages sent through Kinesis result in a saved first outpatient appointment. • Throughout the last 12 months, Kinesis has seen 83% of messages responded to within 2 working days.