Diabetes: HbA1c down 29 mmol in 6 week programme
Erin meets ‘Flo’ Erin is 16 years old, she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 12 years old. Just like any other teenager Erin has a busy life between school, socializing and like most people Erin’s age, her phone is glued to her fingers. Unfortunately Erin’s blood glucose control has been erratic […]
Novel Methods of Managing Alcoholic Liver Disease
Technology Enabled Service for Alcoholic Liver Disease Supported by the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network, Mark Holmes, Team Leader for Alcohol Related Long Term Condition Nurses, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and Sian Clark, Assistive Technology Innovation and Operational Manager, Mansfield and Ashfield CCG describe how Flo supports the identification of onset ascites. The paper describes the […]
Prevention and early detection of diabetes and complications
Dr Parijat De “Best initiative for prevention and early detection of diabetes and complications” Quality in Care (QiC) National award joint winner October 2015 talks about Florence’s support. Does intensive management of patients with diabetic kidney disease using a protocol-based, nurse-led clinic improve renal and cardiovascular outcomes? Dr Parijat De commented, “Diabetic Nephropathy is a major […]
Effective and Safe Wound Care Self-Management Support with Florence
Community nurses from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust have developed an innovative method to provide self-management support for people who require wound care. Flo enables a series of text messages to be sent to service users – providing information and prompts around effectively and safely taking care of their wound. The nurses provide a detailed […]
Care Home: Success using Florence to Support a Community Matron Caseload within Nottinghamshire
A care home in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire have been using Flo to indicate when Community Matron visits are required based on the patient’s vital signs readings reported to Florence. The carers, patients and family are all involved in the use of Flo and the outcomes have been overwhelmingly positive from staff, patients and family demonstrating: Positive […]
Medication Prompts for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Nottinghamshire have captured the case studies below, based on implementation of Florence for patients with Parkinson’s Disease. A – The Over the Rainbow Parkinson’s Group recently had a talk about Florence. Keith who is the chairman had difficulty speaking and was using a walking aid at the group talk. Keith called and was keen to […]
Enabling Patients with COPD to Self-Manage and Enable Early Intervention in Lanarkshire
NHS Lanarkshire have integrated Florence as part of the European-wide initiative United4Health, geared towards using new technology to improve healthcare. NHS Lanarkshire partnered with North and South Lanarkshire Council in the initiative and Florence was demonstrated to be a key tool in supporting COPD patients to self-manage at home and increasing their confidence and feeling […]
NHS Lanarkshire support globetrotting Heart Failure patient
Jet-setting businessman retains wanderlust thanks to innovative text support. Graham, diagnosed with heart failure a year ago, has been able to continue his world travels – thanks to Florence linking him to specialist support in Lanarkshire. Graham Murray from Lanark heads up an international IT trouble-shooting operation, serving major clients in Europe, America and Asia. […]
