Active Clinical Referral Triage endorsed challenge - latest update
Ensuring that all referrals to secondary care (including advice and patient-led referrals) are triaged by a senior clinical decision maker to evidence-based, locally agreed pathways after reviewing all the appropriate electronic patient records. The options include virtual attendance, giving patients clinical information and allowing them to opt-in, ordering investigations, placing on a waiting list for a procedure / surgery and face-to-face (F2F) appointments. For more information on the difference between a Traditional Pathway and a Modernised Patient Pathway, please see the attached document
Planned Outcomes
Key Milestones
Strategic Links
Challenge quantifiable results
Early data from the 58 pilot sites underway have indicated that ACRT can reduce the need for face-to-face appointments by between 15 and 35%
Delivery Leads
Margaret Wood, Modernising Patient Pathways Programme and Lech Rymaszewski, Clinical Lead
Routine outpatient clinics are being scaled back in response to COVID-19. The Supporting Outpatient Clinical Workflows document provides some information around oportunities to support priority clinical workflows.
A toolkit has been produced to help Boards implement this challenge. The complete toolkit is available as a pdf.
Please Contact Margaret.Wood@gov.scot for further information if required
An implementation checklist for ACRT and PIR has been created for use within Boards.
It is available to download here.