795 Clinical hours released by monitoring enteral feeding and blood pressure with Flo
Shropshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust Kate Perkins Shropshire Children’s Community Nursing Team See how clinical hours were released using Florence Children’s Enteral Feeding and Blood Pressure Monitoring – Children’s Community Nursing Team “Flo has enabled some of our patients to become more autonomous in their own care, with some teenagers even taking the lead in managing their conditions […]
COPD patient avoids ambulance call out and acute admissions through self-management with Flo
Blythe Bridge Surgery – Tean and Blythe Bridge Primary Care Ann Hughes – Practice Nurse Flo Helps COPD Patient with a High Frequency of Acute Admissions to Self-Manage and Stay Well Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) describes a number of conditions including emphysema and chronic bronchitis. It is a condition where the airways become inflamed […]
Weight management: Patients successfully show demonstrable behavioral changes with Florence
Weight Management Laura Bell , Dietetic Assistant Practitioner Laura has led on the pilot of Florence in the weight loss maintenance stage of the Lothian program and uses Flo to improve patient commitment and adherence to weight management programs. “I was about to get something from the fridge and a text message came through. It made […]
Collection of 10 Nellie patient stories
The Florence Community of Practice is a unique environment harnessing clinical innovation to rapidly expedite the adoption of safe, innovative digital healthcare. Over the past 10 years through the passion and commitment of Community of Practice members, a robust foundation of independent evidence has organically grown. This wide ranging evidence base, regardless of Flo’s application […]
Hypertension and Florence in General Practice; exploring evidence successfully supporting sustainable £1.2 million scale-up of services
Hypertension and Florence Since the early days of our Community of Practice, hypertension has proved to be the most successfully evaluated pathway with Florence. Following our recent news of Scotland’s £1.2 million Scale-up BP Initiative which will see Flo rolled out nationally over the coming 2 years, we’ve compiled below some key articles and case studies which […]
Intermittent Claudication (IC) Patients feel less isolated and more motivated to improve IC with Flo’s help
Intermittent Claudication (IC) is a symptom of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) where pain is experienced in the main muscle groups of the leg when exercising and walking. Patients with Intermittent Claudication (IC) need to push further into their leg pain when exercising and walking to gain any benefit from physiotherapy – this develops the […]
Smoking Cessation: Improved Quit Rates with Flo
As reported by the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland (NI) “Smoking has been identified as the single greatest cause of preventable illness and premature death in Northern Ireland.” Data from 2014 showed that approximately 16% or 1 in 6 of all deaths in NI were attributable to smoking, including cancers, lung disease and circulatory diseases. […]
Chronic Pain Management: 5 to 6 Month Target Plan
Chronic Pain Management: When I began to work with NHS Highland’s Chronic Pain Team, there was an existing Pain Management Group which ran for 6 weeks at a time for 3 hours every Wednesday. Flo was supporting patients after they had attended the Chronic Pain Management sessions to consolidate the learning and motivate them to integrate […]
Mental Health: Beating the Blues (BtB) with Florence
Our Mental Health Member’s Network has recently been launched to support learning and sharing amongst community of practice members, with the first network call taking place on 17th August. Kylie Dentith, Senior Support Officer for Technology Enabled Care SSHC, began the call by giving an overview of the aims of the Member’s Network, and some […]
Patient successfully controls his Type 2 Diabetes and reaches weight loss goal with Florence – a new healthier future
Mick was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 10 years ago. He first started taking tablets for his diabetes, at which point he began to gain weight. He continued to gain weight which resulted in Mick needing to begin to inject insulin, which in turn caused further weight gain. Mick also had problems with his driving […]
