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Trusts are under tremendous pressure to move patients through accident and emergency into a hospital bed and eventually out into community care or their own homes. With growing staff shortages and capacity constraints, the NHS is facing unprecedented challenges resulting in poorer A&E performance against targets, significant staff burnout and growing elective care backlogs.  Trusts are increasingly looking to electronic bed management systems to improve patient flow and increase capacity by…

This article originally appeared in HealthData Management As healthcare organizations seek to redefine patient data management, they want to achieve benefits from embracing operational efficiency and interoperable systems. Adoption of technology in healthcare, particularly electronic medical records systems, has transformed patient data management. It’s also led to an overemphasis on the electronic record at the expense of operational technology. While EMRs are vital for billing and clinica…

This story originally appeared in Health Estate Journal Medway NHS Foundation Trust has signed a long-term contract with TeleTracking UK to deliver the Trust’s new Care Co-ordination Centre, ‘a centralised, holistic approach for bed management and patient flow’. Underpinned by TeleTracking’s operational electronic bed management platform, the Centre will give a dedicated team of nursing professionals and bed placement specialists real-time visibility of bed status across Medway Maritime Hosp…

Trust’s new centralised, real-time electronic bed management and patient flow system to support delivery of outstanding patient care through improved operational efficiency. 06 June 2023 — Medway NHS Foundation Trust has signed a long-term contract with TeleTracking UK to deliver the Trust’s new Care Co-ordination Centre, a centralised, holistic approach for bed management and patient flow. Underpinned by TeleTracking’s operational electronic bed management platform, the Centre will give a dedi…

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…