TYPE 2 DIABETES EDUCATION

Fully managed service

National Structured Diabetes Education addressing local need

Getting people with diabetes engaged in their own care can be a challenge. NICE endorses the use of Structured Diabetes Education at the time of initial diagnosis but did you know that the national average uptake rate for people with type 2 diabetes is only 7.6%?

Spirit’s EMPOWER diabetes education programme has been designed to address this, providing a 4 hour course that is FULLY MANAGED and conveniently is offered CLOSER TO HOME. This OUTCOMES BASED solution is achieving over 40% uptake where it is being delivered.

EMPOWER has been written in accordance with NICE guidance, is subject to regular external quality assurance and is Certified by QISMET.

EMPOWER is designed to help people with Type 2 Diabetes understand what diabetes is, the effect it has on their body and how to make small, achievable changes to the food they eat and their everyday life.

It works and people like it!

What makes EMPOWER different?

• Fully Managed Service ensuring the necessary time and resource to make it happen whilst improving staff efficiency.
• Courses are delivered locally, closer to home, at convenient times across a variety of venues and locations.
• Outcomes based approach delivering improvements in clinical outcomes resulting in population health benefits and long term cost savings.

People who have been on the course rate it highly - 99% of people would recommend EMPOWER to their friends and family if they were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes

So what will this mean in your locality?

Population health benefits…

• Improvements in access to education and attendance
• Improvements in key clinical markers

NHS benefits…

• In year efficiency in resourcing – reducing administrative burden on staff and releasing nursing staff to care for patients.
• Long term cost savings and impact – NHS England estimated that if SDE is delivered to 20% of the population of population over 5 years, the NHS would save £23m in net savings over 10 years

References:

1. Data on file, Spirit Healthcare. Friends and Family test score across 3 CCGs since April 2016. (March 2017)

2. Data on file, Spirit Healthcare. Historic EMPOWER attendance levels in 3 CCGs since April 2016. (April 2017)

3. National Diabetes Audit 2015-2016. www.content.digital.nhs.uk/PUB23241 (Accessed 22nd May 2017)

4. Data on file, Spirit Healthcare. Outcomes data for East Lancashire EMPOWER course participants. (February 2017) 

Healthy Lifestyles and Wellbeing

Healthy Lifestyles and Wellbeing Programmes – a pioneering new way to keep people healthy at home and in the workplace

Ask yourself, does your organisation take positive action on health and wellbeing?

The Spirit team are experts in healthcare and have a track record of success in developing innovative programmes that break the mould and deliver significant results.

Our aim is to motivate people to improve their lifestyle choices and drive behaviour change, empowering every person to take control of their health.

The benefits of engaging in a wellness, activity and weight management programme have impacts across society as a whole.

Organisations that care for the wellbeing of their staff are rewarded with higher levels of motivation and morale, higher attendance and productivity rates, and improved job satisfaction and outcomes.

Source: Public Health England

Being overweight is associated with long term health complications which directly impacts on employers and the wider health economy. General health and wellbeing is affected by many things including the ability to manage a healthy weight.

Did you know that in 2015?

• 58% of women and 68% of men in the UK were overweight or obese
• around ¼ adults were classed as inactive
• over ½ million admissions to hospitals were obesity related

Source: NHS Digital statistics on obesity, physical activity and diet. Published 30th March 2017

One way you can support your employees is to offer a programme tailored to your needs and monitor its effectiveness against agreed targets.

How can we help?

Our healthy lifestyle and wellbeing programmes are evidence based and follow NICE guidelines (PH53 May 2014)

Step-a-Weigh is a 12 week course which is delivered face-to-face or online to patients referred as part of an NHS health and wellbeing Weight Management programme.

Step-a-Weigh offers a different way to lose weight and keep it off!

It’s all about:

• recognising what works for the individual
• learning about small achievable steps
• providing knowledge and support to make the changes


Spir!t@Work is our Employee Wellbeing Programme offering a suite of resources that can be tailored to suit your employee needs and your budget. We keep it simple and manageable for all.

Step1

• Initial audit of requirements and selection of appropriate package
• Employee Launch
• Provision of step counters and access to our smartphone Activity Tracker App
• Access to 12 week online Step-A-Weigh Programme

Step 2 (if required)

• Access to Weight Management Buddy Pack (Additional Tracker Band / Scales)
• Set up of 10 Community / Team / Group Incentive programmes
• Access to Step-A-Weigh health coaches
• Active management of unlimited employee groups

Step 3

• Making it happen – it’s what we are good at.
• We will work with you to agree outcomes and provide regular feedback on progress.
• Together we will keep people healthy, in work and reduce demand on an over-stretched healthcare system.

So if you are an employer (or a commissioner) looking to manage the health and wellbeing of employees (or patients) please get in touch.

Digital Health Care

Digital Healthcare Solutions - proactively managing long term conditions, driving efficiencies and delivering improved outcomes

The Health and Care landscape is changing with digital transformation at it’s core.

It has been widely documented that directly involving patients in managing their condition is both empowering and facilitates a better use of NHS resources.

Did you know that in the UK the NHS spends over £72 billion every year on taking care of people with long term conditions? With an ageing population and prevalence rates expected to continue at pace, this places a significant burden on the individuals involved and represents an unsustainable expense to the NHS.

The Five Year Forward View states there is a need to manage people with long term conditions (LTC) more effectively in the right place and at the right time. Digital Health Care solutions are effective enablers to achieving this.

How can we help?

We offer a range of digital healthcare solutions designed to empower patients to take control of their health.

Full clinical remote monitoring using cloud based technology

CliniTouch Vie enables real time clinical monitoring in the home for high risk patients, providing intensive intervention when needed to avoid frequent hospitalisation.

CliniTouch Vie, is an evidence-based, multi-award winning digital healthcare platform designed to support patients to better manage their condition with close management using telehealth support. It has the flexibility to be adapted across the range of long-term conditions (COPD, heart failure and diabetes) and, in secondary care, to support early discharge and prevent readmissions.

The service is delivered via a tablet that interfaces wirelessly with a variety of peripheral devices (e.g. pulse oximeter, blood pressure monitor, thermometer, blood glucose meter) to capture biometric data. The interface has a clinically proven branching algorithm which intelligently poses appropriate questions to patients based on their vital signs monitoring, their condition, their care plan and their previous answers.

The system automatically detect early warning signs of acute exacerbations, delivers agreed goals and care advice education to the patient and triggers clinical notifications to initiate appropriate levels of triage.

Population level self-monitoring using smart apps and trackers as a prevention tool to support people in making healthy lifestyle choices and monitor their own health.

Our Activ8rlives Healthcare Monitoring, Wellness and Food Diary solution is a cost effective solution to managing low risk patients at arm’s length.

Using patients own devices this platform is a customisable, configurable web-connecting solution using a Smartphone App available via the App Store and Google Play. Features include simple configurable dashboard, games, peer groups, medals and points.

Importantly patient-generated data can also be reviewed remotely by healthcare professionals if required to provide a light touch option for patients who need short term irregular but scheduled intervention.

Making it happen!

Our project implementation team work with you to design services to meet your local requirement. Together we will deliver provider efficiencies, produce intelligent care records, and improve patient standard of life and care. We are there to help you every step of the way.

Primary Care

GP Services – a refreshing approach to delivering primary care services

Are you a professional or commissioner facing huge challenges in primary care?

We live in a world where time is precious, everyone wants more for less, and technology is at the forefront of everything we do. Sound familiar? Not surprisingly, way patients want to access primary care is changing too – online, over the telephone and at more convenient times.

With resources limited, an increase in demand for services and an ageing population something needs to change. We believe that the current model of primary care is unsustainable and needs to be delivered in a different and innovative way.

Our approach

We have a reputation and track record for delivering genuinely different healthcare services. We build on best practice and use evidence-based approaches to design services that focus on empowering patients and making best use of technology.

Accessibility of services

Providing first class access requires flexibility to meet the needs of a diverse range of patients.

• Access primary care services in a way that is convenient for patients – by phone, in person or through online access to request and book appointments and seek advice.
• Offer the right number of GP and Nurse appointments to meet the needs of patients in a convenient manner
• All patients requesting a GP appointment able to speak to a GP
• Same-day face to face appointments for all patients that require an appointment (with the right member of the multi-disciplinary team) - Making best use innovative technology to provide immediate access to care

Putting the patient first - Achieving above the national average on all GP Survey indicators

• Continually focusing on improving the experience patients receive
• Acting on feedback and involving patients in decisions about the design of their service
• Integrating primary, community and urgent care services to “wrap” services around the patient, ensuring patients do not need to access unplanned care unnecessarily

Empowering patients - Patients empowered to self-manage their conditions

• Using telehealth to support and monitor patients diagnosed with long term conditions

Why us?

• We offer best value to commissioners
• We will provide a highly standardised primary care services innovatively and efficiently
• We will reduce secondary care expenditure