The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
Https://fbkmed.com/funding-for-community-diagnostic-centre-pilots-awarded/
Feedback Medical announces that it is conducting a series of pilot programmes of community diagnostic centre (CDC) care pathways funded by a combined award of £300,000. We are directly contracting with the individual NHS organisations hosting the pilot sites utilising funds locally disbursed for this purpose under NHS England’s community diagnostic centre programme.
These pilots, which will initially run until 31 March 2024, will build on our pilot contract for the Sussex Integrated Care System with the Queen Victoria Hospital and aim to further demonstrate the impact of a pathway approach on CDC utilisation and wider patient wait times. The pilot implementations will also facilitate GP direct access into CDC diagnostic services.
Two pilot sites are participating in the programme – Amersham CDC in Buckinghamshire and a pan regional pilot across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire ICS, looking at multiple service lines and mutual aid delivery models for sharing workforce capacity at a regional basis through the Bleepa platform.
The evidence generated by these pilots will build the case for subsequent funding of a pathway approach to CDC delivery in subsequent financial years and NHS England will be closely monitoring the pilot outcome data as the programme rolls out in order to inform forward planning.
“We are delighted to have the opportunity to further build the evidence base for a pathway approach to CDCs using Bleepa. This will generate the results back into the clinical pathway, under the noses of decision makers and enable them to facilitate a robust clinical dialogue to transform results into care decisions.
“Bleepa has already demonstrated a 69% reduction in wait times through the power of asynchronous communication and a pathway approach with Queen Victoria Hospital in Sussex. This is the sort of impact data that will support the NHS to address elective care backlogs and to help ease winter pressures. It is a privilege to work with a number of new NHS partners to help them deliver this impact for their patients and staff.
“The team very much look forward to commencing these pilots and further strengthening our relationship with the NHS, which provides funding for a number of vanguard projects to champion the adoption and use of digital technology and innovation in care pathways.”
Dr Tom Oakley, CEO, Feedback Medical
Https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/feedback--fdbk/half-year-trading-update-/7950086
Https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/feedback--fdbk/award-of-pilot-funding-/7949948
Https://twitter.com/DrVenkatRS/status/1732941673372717130
Teleradiology refers to the practice of a radiologist interpreting medical images while not physically present in the location where the images are generated.
Does this sound like Bleepa to anyone?
Here's another article describing the Palantir FDP system and the problems it faces in making it work with all the other NHS IT systems. Lots of bugs still need fixing before it works perfectly.
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-news-that-nhs-england-has-awarded-a-contract-to-operate-the-nhss-new-federated-data-platform-fdp-to-join-up-patient-data/
Speaking as an ex-IT guy, the Palantir FDP project stinks of becoming a £330 million failure. What IT project ever gets a go-ahead when a third of the people testing it say it is not up to the job?
Have a quick read of the linked article below or just read the following paragraph if time is short.
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Crider, who has been a notable critic Palantir and the FDP, added: “There’s so much we still don’t know about the FDP. Will it work? Nearly a third of hospital trials of Palantir’s kit this year seem to have failed, and we still don’t know why. If this system isn’t useful to frontline doctors, it risks becoming a half-billion-pound flop.”
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https://www.digitalhealth.net/2023/11/mixed-reaction-as-palantir-lands-330m-nhs-federated-data-platform-deal/#:~:text=National%20Voices%20chief%20executive%20Jacob,much%20to%20gain%20by%20fully
This is not a competitor to Bleepa even if they get it to work one day.
Hi JJ, there appears to be a bit of a rebellion in the NHS regarding Palantir's Federated Data Platform (FDP). Maybe the NHS will be in a position to spend some of the £480m on Bleepa that they will save by junking this FDP.
Doctors urge minister to rethink plan to hand £480m NHS deal to US firm Palantir
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/doctors-urge-minister-rethink-plan-31415908
Doctors call for pause in NHS Federated Date Platform contract
https://www.dauk.org/news/2023/11/11/doctors-call-for-pause-in-nhs-federated-date-platform-contract/
Hi JJ, I can see no overlap between Bleepa and Palantir's Federated Data Platform (FDP). The FDP should offer better data integration thus helping to improve understanding of patient health, treatment outcomes, and healthcare system performance. There should also be an improvement data exchange and communication between different healthcare entities within the NHS. It will also help in research collaboration and decision making but not at an individual patient level.
All told the FDP is about achieving advanced analytics, improving efficiency and optimising resources.
As you can see, the FDP has little to do with individual care which is where Bleepa and CareLocker excel. I don't think you have anything to worry about if you think Palantir's FDP is going to encroach on Bleepa's territory.
I hope she knows something Investor Bill. I used to be able to find odd snippets that entrigued me but everything seems to be locked down tight these days. I can leave you with just two snippets from 'X' formally known as 'Twitter'.
Milton Keynes University Hospital and Radpa - the Radiology School of Palermo are being followed by Bleepa and Feedback Medical. Could be something, could be nothing; that's all I've got.