The 18-week and 26-week targets may be gone, but you still need to know where you stand on referral to treatment times.

Time is a valuable commodity

If collating information and building reports is taking up staff time, where are you going to find the resource for actual pathway management?

If you’re taking too much time monitoring performance when will you be able to improve it?

And how much money is it worth spending to avoid buying a system to do the basic work for you, if that system could actually cost you less?

These are some of the questions the healthcare organisations that have purchased Ardentia’s Pathway Manager for RTT don’t have to ask any more because they have implemented a system that completes the fundamental work of pathway management for them.

Key functionality

Pathway Manager for RTT:

• Identifies patient pathways and the RTT pathways within them.
• Monitors key stages within RTT pathways, including where a healthcare organisation decides, stages it defines itself.
• Reports on achievement of those stages as well as overall targets, so that users get an early warning of a potential breach, long before it is likely to occur.
• Produces standard reports to meet all statutory requirements.
• Allows drill through to underlying patient records wherever necessary.

Reports are distributed to authorised users via Ardentia’s Cassius Vision web-based reporting tool, meaning that the relevant stakeholders can respond quickly when required.

Free up staff time

Pathway Manager for RTT handles all the time consuming tasks – ensuring pathways are built and analysed, statutory reports are produced and information is made available as necessary – on your behalf, enabling staff to carry out the much more valuable work of ensuring practice improves to reduce waiting times and optimise the delivery of quality care.

Benefit from new functionality

The latest release of Pathway Manager for RTT includes a range of new functions that deliver even more benefits.

• Extended reporting capabilities, to including reporting on the RTT position of groups of patients. This, for example, allows reporting on all patients due to attend a clinic: which means before the clinic begins, clinicians or managers can establish just where all of the patients due to attend are on their individual pathways.
• Special handling of patients discharged with no procedure carried out (HRG S22): How many have there been? What is the likely impact on pathways?
• Staff can enter Clock Stop information that doesn’t appear in standard data sets: for example, decision not to treat for clinical reasons.
• Reporting on transfers in or out, and their effect on pathways: for example, transfers in with little time left to breach so that staff can take action to avoid a breach or alert commissioners about unavoidable breaches.
• Reporting on pathways that are either adjusted or unadjusted for pauses. This allows central reports to be run with information about adjusted pathways but you can still see the overall pathway if you need.
• Reporting on active monitoring and pathways affected by active monitoring so that you can split a single pathway into two RTT periods separated by Active Monitoring as appropriate.

These new functions make Ardentia’s Pathway Manager for RTT the most effective tool available to monitor and, above all, to manage Referral To Treatment times.

Report on all wait times

Pathway Manager for RTT enables you to manage the entire pathway followed by a patient – from initial contact with a GP, though acute or other hospital treatment and, if appropriate, back to the GP.

Using sophisticated matching techniques to identify events in your organisations data systems (e.g. patient administration and systems for diagnostic departments) that belong to the same pathways, Pathway Manager for RTT sequences them to build pathways of care.

This enables the solution to identify the specific RTT elements and to generate the counts necessary to meet your locally defined targets. Pathway Manager for RTT can also distinguish between clock start and clock stop events so uncompleted pathways can be identified as open, as opposed to complete or closed pathways. What’s more, the solution calculates the wait times between events.

It can therefore report on all waiting times and, most important of all, on risks of breach based on the current position of patients along the pathway. This enables your managers to monitor progress along pathways on a daily basis and take action to avoid breaches in plenty of time.

Contact Ardentia

For more information about Pathway Manager for RTT email info@ardentia.co.uk or call 0844 848 1204.

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