December 13, 2018
Christmas shopping is considered one of the most stressful activities for a consumer and if you’ve ever been to Oxford Street in December you know what it’s like to get stressed even walking down the road. No surprise most of us have moved shopping online and avoid crowded department stores…
December 10, 2018
Information sharing between professionals and patients needs to be effective and support evolving models of care, whilst reaching beyond organisations and geographies. Secretary of Health and Social Care Matt Hancock highlighted the importance of interoperability within the NHS after his recent overnight shift at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. The…
November 27, 2018
The DrDoctor office had a makeover recently. We worked together with artist @SPZero76 (Keith) and creative collaborative @AnyForty, to represent the health system we see. We’re all so proud of the design and a lot of thinking went behind the bright spray paint. The wall now portrays the DrDoctor philosophy…
November 9, 2018
DrDoctor was featured in a recent national report regarding the adoption and spread of new technology in the NHS. Pioneering NHS organisations were commended for using new technology and models of care to improve outcomes for patients, and our partnership with Guy’s and St Thomas was identified as a great…
November 2, 2018
Did Not Attend (DNA) rate is the standard metric that hospitals use to understand how effectively their clinics are running. For the NHS, the DNA rate of a clinic is normally associated with its’ financial performance i.e. higher DNA rates are seen to indicate worse financial performance for a hospital.…
October 23, 2018
We are thrilled to announce that DrDoctor is part of two of the NHS Wave 2 Test Bed Programmes. We will provide our technology for digital transformation in healthcare delivery for patients and carers alike. We are excited to serve as the Appointment Management and Patient Communications partner in both…
October 16, 2018
We were delighted to find out that DrDoctor has gained nationwide attention in the media, since our Innovation and Technology Payment (ITP) success. A number of news outlets including The Telegraph, The Sun, Metro and The Daily Mail ran a feature on us and how we are trying to help…
September 20, 2018
The NHS was founded on the principals that healthcare should meet the needs of everyone, should be free at the point of delivery, and be based on clinical need not ability to pay. But, when it comes to follow-up appointments (when a patient has had their initial consultation and is…
August 24, 2018
We’re all only human. And human behaviour is often a complex thing to predict. At DrDoctor we’re committed to understanding patient behaviour and using that understanding to influence how we design our services. We believe that to run a good hospital we must strive to make it work for everybody…
August 6, 2018
I’m Hector, the Data Protection Officer at DrDoctor. In this article, I spell out the steps that we took in preparation for GDPR kicking in on May 25th, and the steps we have taken since then that go above and beyond the legal requirements. At DrDoctor we try to make…
March 9, 2018
The Epidemic The definition of an epidemic is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. It’s not too great a leap to suggest that the NHS is experiencing an epidemic of its own; a financial one. Every few weeks, we see newspapers dominated…
March 8, 2018
We sat down with Hamish Laing, Medical Director, and Chief Information Officer, ABM University Health Board, to discuss all things digital and the NHS. We wanted to understand where Hamish has come from through his journey in the NHS, what inspires him and what he hopes to see in the…
February 15, 2018
Back when I studied economics at school, I was introduced to the concept of Ceteris Paribus – all other things being equal – and the term stuck with me, not least because phrases in Latin make you sound smart. It is used when examining, building and testing economic theories and models to…
January 11, 2018
The NHS has come a long way from where it began, and as our world evolves and becomes ‘smarter’, our healthcare system needs to keep up to ensure patients and NHS workers are given the support they need. Over the past few years, headlines have stated how the NHS…