Our digital therapeutic toolkits provide support for patients promoting the type of behaviours that result in improved outcomes and reduce the burden on the health system. Here is a selection of recent outcomes, publications and awards demonstrating how the ICST Toolkits are transforming healthcare.
Dr Simon Barry, National Respiratory Clinical Lead, NHS Wales
Of patients surveyed say the app helps them manage their condition
Decrease in patients who rely on their rescue medication to stay well
Improvement in monthly wellness scores
Decrease in A&E visits
Decrease in GP visits
reduction in bed days
Annual cost saving per ICS for reduced unscheduled GP attendances
Annual cost saving per ICS for reduced A&E attendances
Cost saving by reducing in-patient stays in one healthboard alone
Benefiting millions of patients
Of GP Practices have patients using the toolkit
Of GP Practices have healthcare professionals using the toolkit
Full implementation at scale and pace is reached using implementation science software (ISS), outperforming traditional approaches by nine fold.
ICST digital programmes reduce the burden on frontline services. Among regular users of the ICST respiratory apps, 36% reduce their visits to the GP, and 19% reduce their admissions to A&E, following improved wellness scores.
The respiratory apps are endorsed by Asthma UK and BLF (now Asthma + Lung UK), in their post-COVID report about restoring and improving basic care for patients with lung disease.
Asthma UK endorse the respiratory apps in a press release – ‘Alone, breathless during lockdown – the app that offered hope and support.’
The 2021 NACAP Audit showed an increase in referrals to pulmonary rehab for patients with COPD in Wales, supported by the National Respiratory Toolkit.
As a trusted partner of the NHS during the COVID pandemic, ICST delivered high-quality digital toolkits in a matter of weeks to the healthcare professionals that needed it, when they needed it.
Detailing how ICST are supporting clinicians to provide the best, evidence-based care for their patients, The COVID toolkit was praised by the Chief Medical Officer in his 2021 “Protecting our Health” Report.
Implementation Science methodology results in positive outcomes when implementing a National Clinical Guideline to standardise the management of acute COVID-19 in Hospitals across Wales.
Minister for Health Eluned Morgan outlines the benefits the NHS Wales COVID Recovery app has brought to patients suffering from long COVID in her 2021 report on the Aferiad programme. The Long COVID app was a success of co-production with patients.
The Respiratory apps improve the efficiency of consultations and promote shared decision making with healthcare professionals, a key principle of Value Based Care.
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