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Virtual MSK MDT

by Niel Kang | May 24, 2020 | in Planned and Elective Care

There are so many points within a patient’s MSK pathway that can be enhanced with a virtual MDT from:

A) Advice & guidance from primary care - triage to correct subspecialty (e.g. spine v shoulder or hip,) 

B) Assess need for imaging / neurophysiology/ gait analysis pre consultation.

C) need for surgical outpatient at all in very elderly or significant comorbidities 

D) Advice & guidance in secondary care e.g rheumatology to orthopaedics; orthopaedics to pain team; anaesthetics and orthogeriatricians to orthopaedics in frail and elderly patients with co morbidities wanting surgery. 

E) advice and guidance for secondary to tertiary care with complex / revision cases within hospitals and in between hospitals 

F) orthopaedics to radiology to ensure optimal imaging and patient flow

G) post operative follow up by nurse / physiotherapy freeing up more time for new patient assessments & reducing journeys / carbon offsetting at multiple points.

H) joint Arthroplasty classes preoperatively and postoperatively 

 

What is needed to sustain the change?

What is your region?

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edited on Jul 13, 2020 by Kyle Beacham
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Gareth Stables May 26, 2020

Agree with your thoughts on this. We need to re-look at the whole MSK system and see where we can improve things. We could make the whole process much more efficient for people.

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Greta McLachlan Jun 3, 2020

Status labels added: Virtual consultation, Primary and secondary care int, Video consulting, Implementation, Technology (software/ apps), Regional Collaboration, Virtual MDT, Pathway Redesign, Remote Monitoring, Patient selection

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Greta McLachlan Jun 3, 2020

Status labels added: Triage, Horizon 2

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Greta McLachlan Jun 3, 2020

The idea has been progressed to the next milestone.

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Kyle Beacham Jul 13, 2020

Status labels removed: Implementation, Pathway Redesign, Patient Selection, Prim/Sec Integration, Regional Collaboration, Remote Monitoring, Technology (Software/ Apps), Triage, Video Consulting, Virtual Consulting, Virtual MDT

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