Innovative Partnerships

Working together to deliver effective and seamless care

Hammersmith and Fulham

Connect Health have been working with Hammersmith and Fulham since May 2016 and this comprehensive case study highlights the achievements in the first year, the challenges of MSK provision, the journey to tendering, the elements of the service and the positive impact on patients.

For the first year of the service significant improvements have been made, including reductions in secondary care referrals by GP’s year on year, reduction in MRI expenditure and reduction in waiting times for MSK services, despite increase in activity.

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Hammersmith and Fulham case study summary results

14% - 19%

Reduction in secondary care referrals by GP year on year – Trauma & Orthopaedics and Rheumatology

46%

Reduction in MRI expenditure in Jan 2016 v Jan 2017

31%

Reduction in MRI expenditure year on year

99%

Reduction in waiting times for MSK services, despite increase in activity (referral to treatment rate)

85%

Of patients are seen in physio clinic within 3 weeks from GP referral

Flippin' Pain™

Living well with persistent pain is a concept inspired by Pain Revolution in Australia.

Connect Health delivers services for patients living with “Persistent Pain” as part of broader MSK pathways or as standalone services, such as in Lincolnshire. Management of pain has been in need of a new way of thinking as too many people have become reliant on injections and strong opioid medication which have been shown to be ineffective in the medium and longer-term.

Collaborating with Professor Lorimer Moseley, an international expert on chronic pain and clinical scientist, we are applying the innovative Pain Revolution principles to help people with chronic pain in the UK for the first time.

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Supporting the NHS

Moving Forward – How to commission evidence-based MSK pathways

There are 17.8 million people in the UK living with an MSK condition – more than one in every four people. The impact of MSK conditions is often underestimated, but they are the single biggest cause of disability in the UK, and often have profound personal and societal implications.

There are many events that describe the physiotherapy evidence base and others that focus on best practice. This series of events is unique in that for the first time, it brings the two together giving you the very best in how to commission evidence-based MSK pathways.

These events see Connect Health collaborate with Academic institutions and are intended to support NHS organisations plan and deliver appropriate and effective musculoskeletal (MSK) services to their local population.