Horizon scanning for Arden GEM CSU: urgent care

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Thursday, 1 October 2020

To describe availability and use of Emergency admission risk stratification (EARS) tools across the UK, and identify factors perceived to influence implementation. An online survey identified 39 different EARS tools in use. Nearly 40% of areas using EARS tools reported introducing or realigning services as a result, but relatively few reported use for service evaluation.

A review found little evidence to suggest whether digital symptom checkers are safe or unsafe, and studies evaluating their safety were generally short term and small scale. Symptom checkers were found to be generally less accurate than health professionals, although their performance in studies was variable.

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This report looks at why 5G matters to the UK emergency services, along with use cases of the network within different places, such as in the control room, on the frontline and at the device level.

Analysis of face to ace interviews (n=3510) with residents from 20 neighbourhoods across the north west coast found that 36% had attended A&E in the previous 12 months and identified some significant factors.

Case study of an A&E avoidance social marketing campaign in Merseyside using videos of a local rugby league club.players and seed funding from a local healthcare facilities and estates provider.
Backed by social media advertising, the result was 14 times the engagement of traditional NHS marketing in the area and a correlating 7.8 per cent reduction in local A&E usage.

New analysis in ‘The state of care in urgent primary care services’ shows that the majority of walk-in and urgent care centres, NHS 111 and GP out-of-hours services in England are rated good (118) or outstanding (10).
The report also highlights that effective urgent primary care benefits not only patients but the wider healthcare system, by easing pressure on other services.
Voluntary sector groups raised concerns that there is a lack of public information about which services to contact and when.