Chinwag - Autumn 2019

Corporate news

MyChristie-MyHealth Since launching in January, MyChristie-MyHealth, the Trust’s new ePROMs (electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures) service has been very successful. The Christie is the first cancer centre worldwide to introduce ePROMs in routine clinical practice. The service allows patients to complete online questionnaires about their symptoms, quality of life and experience, which has been shown to improve patient outcomes. This can be done remotely and in between clinic appointments. So far, MyChristie-MyHealth has been rolled out to lung and head and neck patients and in patients treated with proton beam therapy. Feedback from 100 patients has been overwhelmingly positive; patients found the service quick and easy to use (99%), they felt more involved in their care (97%) and improved their communication with their clinical team (82%). Future work involves Trust-wide roll out of ePROMs and their use to drive personalised follow-up and develop a real-time patient responsive service. Medical inpatient noting project May saw the go-live of an extensive inpatient noting project that supports ‘paper-light’ documentation of all long-stay medical patients, with all medical and nursing care being recorded and updated within the clinical web portal (CWP). As a whole, the project included the design and creation of a medical handover worklist and 27 new CWP forms. On top of this, changes were made to 15 pre-existing CWP forms. This project was a massive achievement delivered by the clinical data capture team in collaboration with software development, Jo Jackson, Ruth Conroy, Rhidian Bramley and Jac Livsey amongst many others. The project team is grateful for the support received from all areas, with particular thanks to the medical staff involved with form testing and to the digital services staff who offered support on the wards post go-live. The next phase of this project will see all of the surgical inpatient notes migrating to CWP. Work is ongoing to deliver this project and communication will be released as appropriate. Information and relevant training videos for this or future projects are available on the digital services HIVE page under clinical web portal, info & training videos.

Red flag cancer education gets green light fromHEE Developed and hosted at The Christie, GatewayC provides online cancer education for primary care. After a successful uptake in the north of England, the tool will now be available to every GP and primary care professional across NHS England for free, through funding from Health Educations England. The platform features RCGP accredited courses that focus on early diagnosis, suspected cancer referrals and living with and beyond cancer. Since its launch, GatewayC has shown promising initial signs of supporting earlier cancer diagnosis. Users have already reported taking action, with some patients being called for reassessment or being referred on a suspected cancer pathway as a result of the training. One GP from Wigan contacted the team after referring a patient as a direct result of completing the online learning. She said: Having recently completed GatewayC’s lymphoma course, I was made much more aware of the signs of lymphoma when a symptomatic patient presented to me in clinic. I was able to confidently arrange a suspected cancer referral for my patient as a result of this learning, who was subsequently diagnosed quickly. This will give my patient the best possible outcome going forward. Dr Hosie, GP, Wigan

The tool is available across the country to all primary care staff. Find out more at www.gatewayc.org.uk or by emailing gatewayc@ christie.nhs.uk

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