UHNM first started using Recap Health to share healthcare information with heart failure patients, on discharge from in-patient care.
An independent evaluation, funded by NHS England, has demonstrated that patients using Recap Health together with Flo, another digital tool, are 42% less likely to be readmitted over 6 months than similarly aged patients. Delivering annual savings to UHNM of up to £1.5 million per year.
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Patients 42% less likely to be readmitted over 6 months
Annual savings of up to £1.5 million per year.
Evaluation highlights
Hospital all cause readmissions rate of 52% at 6 months post discharge compared to usual care group rate of 94%.
Equates to relative risk reduction of 42% and annual savings of £1.5 million per year for UHNM.
A&E all cause readmissions rate is 34% at 6 months post discharge compared to usual care group rate of 100%. Equates to relative risk reduction of 66%.
NHS savings of £50 million a year if applied to the 80,000 patients admitted with heart failure annually.
77% of patients reported a significant increase in self-efficacy scores using KCCQ at 3 months.
Patient feedback
The Children and Young Peoples’ service were the first to go live with Recap Health. Use spread quickly and now a wide range of Community and Mental Health teams now use Recap Health every day.
Use Highlights
Over 44,000 Trust patients now use Recap Health
Over 700,000 pieces of healthcare information sent
73% of all patients report that Recap Health has been very useful or useful
83% of Wellbeing Service clients report that Recap Health has been useful or very useful
86% of all patients reporting on content say content has been very useful or useful
Over 11,000 ratings and comments on content by patients
Benefits
Improvement to recovery rates
Less cancelled sessions
Better use of in-session time
Admin staff time freed up for more value-adding work
Postage bill considerably reduced
Improved quality and range of information based on over 9,000 pieces of feedback