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Elective Recovery Tool: Patient Waiting List Management
Managing patient waiting lists efficiently is critical for reducing delays, improving patient outcomes, and ensuring that healthcare resources are used effectively.
Working alongside the NHS Elective Recovery Plan, Graphnet’s Elective Recovery Tool, integrated within the Population Health Management platform, provides NHS trusts with a powerful solution to validate, cleanse, and optimise waiting lists.
What is the NHS Elective Recovery Plan?
The NHS Elective Recovery Plan was introduced to tackle the backlog of elective care procedures, ensuring patients receive timely treatment and reducing excessive waiting times. With a further undertaking by the current government to ensure that 92% of patients are seen in 18 weeks or less from referral to treatment by 2029 as part of its Reforming elective care for patients’ strategy, elective recovery has never been in the spotlight more.
A key element of the plan is the use of advanced waiting list management tools to help trusts organise, prioritise and streamline patient care pathways. These tools ensure that healthcare providers can:
· Identify long-waiting patients and schedule appointments based on urgency and clinical need.
· Reduce administrative burden by automating data validation and eliminating duplicate or outdated patient records.
· Monitor waiting list performance and track progress toward NHS recovery targets.
· Enhance patient communication by ensuring up-to-date contact details and status updates, reducing the likelihood of missed appointments or treatment delays.
Ask us about Elective Recovery to learn how our technology can support your trust.
Key Features of the Elective Recovery Tool
Designed to work alongside the NHS Elective Recovery Plan, Graphnet’s Elective Recovery Tool streamlines waiting list management by prioritising and optimising patient pathways.
Some of its key features include:
· Quick Appointment Booking: The Elective Recovery Tool allows NHS trusts to filter and prioritise the 52-week, non-admitted cohort, ensuring that patients without scheduled appointments are quickly identified and booked in.
· Prioritised TCI Scheduling: For patients in the 52-week cohort with a Decision to Admit (DTA), the tool flags those without a Set to Come In (TCI) date. This allows providers to prioritise patients who need treatment.
· Smart List Validation: Built-in algorithms automatically validate waiting lists by identifying deceased patients, duplicate entries, missing procedure codes, and priority cases.
· Accurate Patient Coding: The tool ensures that choice patient coding is correctly assigned, minimising errors and improving the accuracy of patient records.
· Independent Sector Tracking: The tool integrates patient data from multiple care settings, enabling trusts to track patients receiving treatment in private hospitals. This improves capacity planning and referral management.
Book a Demo to discover how Graphnet’s Elective Recovery Tool can help streamline your waiting list management.
