Average 20% reduction of last-minute cancellations of surgery
Synopsis
Digitise and streamline pre-operative pathways to tackle the surgical backlog
Synopsis is the complete digital pre-operative assessment platform, supporting hospitals to reduce surgery cancellation rates and increase theatre utilisation.
Maximise theatre utilisation
Surgery and anaesthesia are the hospital’s engine room. The pre-operative process is the fuel for that engine. Synopsis ensures this process is efficient, supporting hospitals to increase patient throughput and maximise theatre utilisation whilst reducing cancellation rates and risk. The Synopsis Platform enables hospitals to manage the entire pre-operative assessment digitally, delivering significant operational efficiencies to increase patient throughput to surgery. Synopsis is used within the NHS to complete over 110,000 pre-operative assessments annually, contributing to an average saving of £1.4m per Trust, per annum. Savings are generated from the reduction of last-minute cancellations of surgery by an average of 20%.
Streamline the pre-operative process
Synopsis has replaced the time-intensive paper-based pre-operative assessment process with a digital solution that is easy and convenient for patients to use, whilst saving time for hospital staff and reducing operation cancellation rates. Using Synopsis Home, patients are able to complete their pre-operative health questionnaire digitally from the comfort of their home. Synopsis iQ streamlines processes and supports hospitals in reducing risk with over 250 clinically validated algorithms within the Synopsis Engine. This engine processes vast amounts of data instantly to produce published risk levels including; ASA, Aspiration Risk, POSPOM and P-POSSUM, with calculated cardiac and lung risk levels, and a mortality score. These risk scores provide a summarised view of the data, helping to identify low-risk patients who can be fast-tracked into light-touch care pathways and higher-risk patients requiring intervention.
Increase pre-operative capacity
When patients complete their pre-operative assessment questionnaire at home, staff can swim-lane them before they attend hospital using the ASA risk score. ASA details the comorbidities and general health of the patient. On average, we find approximately 45% of patients are ASA 1 – therefore, the follow-up appointment can be a 15-minute telephone consultation with a Health Care Assistant, rather than a 1-hour face-to-face appointment with a Nurse or Anaesthetist. Using this model, one NHS trust has reported productivity savings of 47% – doubling available pre-operative capacity, whilst at another NHS trust, the pre-operative capacity has increased by 7,000 patients annually.
