Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service

Health Intelligence has recently (April 2011) entered the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (DRS) managed service business with a new contract to screen over 85,000 patients with diabetes across six PCTs in East Anglia. 

Did you know that Diabetic Retinopathy is the largest cause of blindness in the adult population?

Health Intelligence provides a high quality, comprehensive DRS service to assist our clients identify, screen and monitor patients with diabetes and at risk of Retinopathy.   Close liaison with the Hospital Eye Service is delivered to ensure patients that require treatment to prevent sight loss are managed appropriately,

Our Approach

We provide a comprehensive managed service to cover all aspects of a quality DRS programme and in full compliance with the national standards and best practice.

Our managed service:

• Establishes and maintains an accurate population based register of all those with diabetes; and helps to resolve data quality issues which results in identifying a further 9% of patients who should be included with the DRS programme
• Operates an efficient patient call, recall and booking service
• Provides trained and accredited Retinal Screeners/Graders
• Makes use of modern software to assist in the screening and grading of retinal images and identifying patients in need of a hospital referral
• Delivers performance and clinical reporting to national standards.

Features & Benefits:

• High quality and comprehensive DRS services tailored to your needs
• Browser-based diabetes register constructed and maintained (which significantly improved the accuracy of the diabetic registers)
• Full patient status management including call and recall tools for managing the patient pathways
• Cost-effective booking services
• Experienced management of DRS programmes including Failsafe functions
• Retinal screening/grading by trained and accredited professional staff
• Controlled access to centrally stored screening results and image set for General Practice and the Hospital Eye Service (HES)
• Automated patient referral service and HES referral dashboard to assist in the management of the interface between screening and treatment
• Internal Quality Assurance of the Grading Service conducted as standard and based on a 10% random sample to assure the Commissioner of the DRS Programme’s Sensitivity and Specificity.

Benefits to Commissioners:

Commissioners both PCTs and Practice Based Commissioning Groups will have the assurance of a very cost effective and quality DRS programme, which will be fully integrated within General Practice and the Hospital Eye Services.

Rapid Deployment:

Our service can be operational within a few weeks of being commissioned.

Total Control:

General Practice are kept in control of their patient’s involvement in the DRS programme using our browser-based CDRIntell software application.

Patient Centric Service:

Our service is delivered with the patient in mind and places them at the centre of the process.  Patients will be able to access their results and image sets on-line

 

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