News & Insights
Supporting respiratory care in Powys: A Patient Success Story
Jo Allen is the Respiratory Specialist Nurse Team Leader at Welshpool Hospital. Jo was first introduced to Flo a number of years ago, and has been using Flo to support patients who have a variety of respiratory conditions. She has recently taken some time to share one of her patient’s
Hypertension and Flo in General Practice; exploring evidence supporting sustainable scale-up of services
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
Long Term Conditions: Florence’s Role in Improved Healthcare Delivery
Non-compliance to healthcare guidance has always been a significant challenge in healthcare, particularly long term conditions management. The latest figures show that there are over 26 million people in the UK living with a long-term condition (NHS), with one in four adults living with more than one condition (NIHR). Multimorbidity
Mental Health: Have you ever stopped to think about this? Try it today
Everyone has Mental Health We all have mental health. It involves our emotions, psychology and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act; how we handle stress, relate to others and make our choices. It’s a lot to think about, right? A lot to keep balanced and healthy.
Question Time 1: Meet our Chief Medical Officer (CMO)- Jonathan Serjeant – under the spot light
Question Time We have put our Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Jonathan Serjeant, under the spot light in this month’s Question Time. The average GP has to make around 80-100 individual patient decisions a day Q. What is your connection within healthcare and why do you like what you do? Healthcare
Asthma – “Very positive results”
Corinne Clark Respiratory Specialist Nurse Many of Corinne’s patients suffer from severe asthma, which requires careful management to avoid asthma attacks that, in the most serious instances, can be life-threatening. Corinne often worried about her asthmatic patients, specifically how well they were handling their condition, and wanted to do something
Sharing Experiences and Knowledge: Supporting Asthma Care with Flo in a Rural setting
Our Member’s “Network Calls” enable peer to peer sharing across a single area of clinical interest, Asthma, providing clinicians working within specialist fields the opportunity to hear from their peers to discuss their own experiences and learning with Flo. The third “Respiratory” Member’s Network Call took place in July featuring Corinne
54 Year old musician’s life kept in harmony thanks to innovative text system
Innovative text system Lanarkshire’s answer to Johnny Cash has revealed how the power of text has kept his life in harmony during ill health. John Stalker (54), from Hamilton, was a long distance driver who – inspired by the Man in Black – sang and played guitar around local music
Focus on COPD: Improving quality of life in the Highlands
COPD – Supporting patients to take personal responsibility You may have previously read the inspirational report published by NHS Highland providing a comprehensive analysis of Flo’s impact across a number of services throughout the Highlands region, including hypertension, asthma, low FODMAP diet and weight loss. Feedback around NHS Highland’s COPD pathway has
Blood Glucose (BG) remote monitoring results in no further hospital admissions or ambulance call outs
Patient 1 was a 77 year old with type 2 diabetes. The patient lived in a residential care home, and their diabetes was difficult to control, with blood glucose (BG) readings anywhere between 2mmol and 30mmol being recorded. This poor control led to the patient being hospitalized for a
Better prescribing, improved safety, less visits and reduced risk of complications for incompliant patients in General Practice – 3 case studies
Better prescribing: Figures have suggested that more than twelve million GP appointments are missed each year in the UK, costing in excess of £162 million per year. Ultimately it is not about the financial cost, but the opportunity cost to the NHS – GPs are not able to offer these
Patient’s mental health is transformed after Flo’s help to improve medication adherence
Mental Health: Helen Thompson, Safe Care Lead and Jan Gorman, Health Care Support Worker from the Learning Disabilities Service at South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust discusses how intervening with Flo has regained the independence of one of their patients with mild learning difficulties, resulting in their mental health stabilizing and removing
