Portability, Convenience,
Flexibility - ULTRASOUND
in the Community
Ultrasound solutions for Primary and
Secondary Care
Portability, technology advances and concerns about radiation dose have given ultrasound a much wider role. The 4 Ways service can include travel into the community, skilled operators, provision of scanning systems and full reporting in a comprehensive service with no equipment to buy.
Aims of the 4WAYS ultrasound service:
- To provide patients with rapid access to diagnostics in a setting close to home
- Improve patient access to ultrasound across local communities
- Manage demand in primary care
- Improve patient choice and enhance the patient experience
- To ensure that 18 week referral to treatment targets are met by reducing waiting times for ultrasound
- Reduce first and follow-up outpatient attendances in secondary care thereby streamlining patient pathways.
- Promote the development of specialisation in primary care
- To develop a service that integrates with and compliments the existing local Radiology service providers
Benefits:
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Flexible we are also able to provide additional capacity within Hospital NHS trusts.
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Cost effective
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Flexibility, dynamic, patient centred approach
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Latest technology, accredited personal, consultant radiologist led
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Robust clinical governance and quality assurance underpinned by ISO accreditation
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Fast turnaround of reports
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ISO 9001:2000
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Experience, tested delivery models
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Scanning a full range of non obstetric ultrasound procedures…. Including musculo skeletal, small joints, GI, GU, pelvic, abdominal etc (not exhaustive list).
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