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PKB supports trusts' elective recovery plans for Waiting List Validation (WLV) with our understanding that WLV is about capturing more and better data about patients waiting on lists. PKB’s questionnaire tool allows trusts to validate a patient's status.

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This is the suggested manual workflow PKB can support you to set-upsetup. Contact your Success PM for further guidance.

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As part of a nationwide programme, UHNM is using PKB APIs to trigger the sending of questionnaires to patients, gathering BMI stats from patients awaiting surgery. They use this data to decide whether their surgery is still okay to proceed or whether patients must be put on a weight management programme or delay their surgery.

  • Focused on the provision of digital weight management services that can be delivered flexibly, without the need for people to travel

  • Promote rehabilitation for surgery 

  • 12 weeks programme

  • The pilot programme is for a 12 month period

Hywel Dda University Health Board

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There are key PKB features all services validating waiting lists can use to capture data. A list of them is below.

Questionnaires 

Teams can use PKB’s FHIR trigger API to automate sending questionnaires to service users. They can use PKB’s FHIR API to extract completed responses back into their Organisation's electronic patient record (EPR) for review.

Patients can initiate a questionnaire by clicking Start Questionnaire on their homepage or directly within the NHS App. Once completed, the questionnaire can be sent to a professional or team.

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Patients will be added to the team (set periods) and sent a Questionnaire asking if they still want their appointment. Once the Trust collects the response is collected by the Trust, they can Validate their waiting list and either discharge the patient from the PKB team or keep the patient in this the team, sending a waiting list validation Questionnaire as needed and in line with NHSE guidelines. For those patients not registered in PKB, the Trust will send a digital letter to the patient's PKB record or SMS to encourage them to register for PKB and complete the waiting QA.

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