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Ian Sturgess, an urgent and emergency care expert, creator of the Directory for Ambulatory Emergency Care for Adults, and advisor at TeleTracking UK, explains why operational solutions are vital in delivering Integrated Care Systems, transforming patient flow, and improving clinical quality. This story originally appeared in Building Better Healthcare. When the NHS was founded on 5 July, 1948, post-war Britain was facing a health crisis formed of nursing staff shortages, continued food ratio…

How IT is helping to ease strains in A&E departments in Kent This article originally appeared in The Economist Five years ago Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in Kent performed averagely among 137 trusts with major accident & emergency (a&e) departments, when measured by wait times. Recently, even as other trusts have been buckling, it has rarely left the top ten. Two things in particular have helped to turn things around, says Miles Scott, the trust’s chief exe…

BBC South East featured our client Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to share how our technology is helping reduce the time patients are at the hospital, saving bed time and making a positive patient flow impact across the hospital, especially in the Emergency Department."We have a real-time patient monitoring system so we can understand where all of our patients are in our hospitals and our community hospitals." Operations Director Nick Sinclair explains how TeleTracking has transformed c…

This article originally appeared in The Times The wall of a quiet back room at Maidstone Hospital has been taken over by ten giant televisions flashing brightly coloured graphs.  Between them, the screens display the status of all 712 beds at the NHS trust, including how many are empty (56) and the number occupied by Covid patients (four). Two years ago these vital statistics would have been collected manually using pencils, rubbers and whiteboards. Now, the hospital leads the NHS in using…

MTW and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust implement the region’s first integrated Co-ordination Centre, strengthening collaboration between acute and community care   July 11, 2022: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) is expanding the capacity to care in collaboration with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT). Today, MTW and TeleTracking Technologies announce the expansion of MTW’s patient flow platform into KCHFT’s four community hospitals. This is one of the…

Consortium of UNITY AG, m.Doc GmbH and TeleTracking GmbH develops innovative overall solution Braunschweig, February 16, 2022: Braunschweig Municipal Hospital (SKBS) has announced the launch of a digital patient portal with a platform for capacity management and patient flow. The consortium of UNITY AG, m.Doc GmbH and Teletracking GmbH are developing a comprehensive and integrated solution that will enable patients to manage their appointments and records online, while the hospital will benef…

TELETRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND VIRGINIA MASON INSTITUTE PARTNER TO IMPROVE BED MANAGEMENT AND ELECTIVE CARE BACKLOG Global improvement experts, Virginia Mason Institute (VMI), and the world leading provider of patient flow and bed management software, TeleTracking Technologies, announce a strategic partnership to address the current challenges facing the National Health Service (NHS). VMI and TeleTracking bring a wealth of expertise in hospital operations improvement, system leadership and ca…

This article originally appeared in DigitalHealth The Digital Healthcare Council and patient flow technology TeleTracking have joined forces in a bid to improve operational capacity in the NHS.   The Digital Healthcare Council represents a number of digital health innovators and was set up to bring together industry leaders to provide valuable insights into the complex infrastructure of the NHS and it’s IT. Through joining the council TeleTracking hopes to help deliver a “digitally-led, pa…

This article was originally publish by Health Tech World.  An NHS Trust has seen significant improvements in service delivery for both staff and patients through the adoption of a new digital patient flow platform.    Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) has created a centralised Care Co-ordination Centre, powered by TeleTracking’s patient flow platform, to help it manage real-time visibility of available beds.  Used across its two sites, Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospi…

This article originally appeared in Clinical Services Journal Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) is striving to ensure that no patient has to wait for the care they need, by implementing a centralised care co-ordination centre powered by TeleTracking’s patient flow platform. The software provides real-time visibility of the bed status (occupied; pending discharge; ‘dirty’ / ‘clean’; ready to be allocated; allocated) across its two sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hosp…