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Right Care, Right Place, Right Time - Chronic Disease Management
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Sláintecare hosted our third Right Care, Right Place, Right Time, Webinar - ‘Chronic Disease Management’ on 30 July 2020.
This webinar focussed on projects which are improving experiences for people living with chronic disease. These projects are bringing huge benefits to patients and are ensuring that patient experiences are more positive, thanks to being able to access care locally and reducing the need for GP or hospital visits while also enhancing the mental and physical health of so many patients, all key objectives of Sláintecare
Three projects providing services for people living with chronic disease shared their learnings from COVID-19 - how their work practices might have changed during COVID-19; what has enabled them to change work practice; are these changes sustainable; and how projects can be supported to maximise the learning and inform the future way to deliver the right care in the right place, at the right time, by the right team.
Heart Failure Virtual Consultation Service with Clinical Nurse Specialist Support in the Community- Prof Professor Ken McDonald who is the founder and Medical Director of the Heart Failure Unit at St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin spoke about Ireland East Hospital Group project. This project is an innovative approach to heart failure treatment which facilitates real-time, online specialist support to GPs and provides prompt access to diagnostics – in a community setting.
Response of the Integrated Foot Protection Service to COVID 19- Dr. Ronan Canavan, Consultant Endocrinologist St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Anita Murray Senior Podiatrist St. Columcilles/St. Vincent’s University Hospital and Carmel Devine Podiatry Manager CHO3 told us how they are working collaboratively and have adapted to the COVID-19 crisis to respond to the needs of patients in the Integrated Foot Protection Services in CHO 3 and 6.
Keeping people with severe epilepsy independent - St James’ Hospital is the largest teaching hospital in Ireland and its ED has over 50,000 attendances a year – epilepsy is the most common neurological disease amongst young people and a common reason for admission through ED. Dr Colin Doherty Consultant Neurologist told us how they are developing new pathways using remote and virtual care and reducing visits to ED.
This webinar was the third in a series of webinars and is being hosted by Sláintecare in partnership with HSE and IFIC Ireland.