Paediatric teams are using use PKB to give parents and carers more control over their child’s care and empower them with care plans, a comprehensive library and messaging functionality to self manage their care and health.

Paediatric Case Study

Key PKB features

Questionnaires 

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.

Teams using the questionnaire tool can ensure the outcome of clinical reviews is recorded and the patient has a copy. Teams can also identify patients suitable for virtual appointments or pre-operative assessment questionnaires.

New Advanced Questionnaires  

PKB's advanced questionnaire functionality

The features include:

• Scoring and calculations

• Branching, allowing patients to complete the parts of the questionnaire that are relevant to them

• Coded fields questionnaires can be mapped to clinical codes

• Patients can save drafts

• Send questionnaires to patients who aren’t registered or already in your team

Questionnaire templates 

• Pre clinic questionnaires

• Post-operative questionnaires

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Messaging

• Patients have access to secure messaging (saving time on the phone).

• Messaging across multi-care providers, including the parents/carers in the conversations

• When parents send videos, parents/carers add doctors and nurses to the thread so they can look at the video together

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Library

• Relevant leaflets into the library

• Meet the team videos / including admin staff - patients know the whole team

• Videos by the team instructing parents/carers/patients about different aspects of epilepsy

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Care plans

• Individualised templates with escalation plans

• In and output charts

• Seizure Diary

• All about me

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Journal

• Details of specific seizures, including the time preceding a seizure. The nurses have commented that this detailed information hasn’t been wasn’t shared prior to PKB.

Symptoms & Measurements

• Tracking seizure triggers and types/frequency of seizures

• Allows clinicians and parents/carers to see trends or patterns

Further information

• Paediatric access: workflows for children 16 and under having access to their PKB record

• Adding a parent or guardian: workflow for adding a parent or guardian to a child's record once they've registered as a patient in PKB

• Epilepsy teams: how PKB is being used by an epilepsy team to give patients carers and parents access to data and communicate with their childs team

• Epilepsy care plan template examples: three examples of care plans used by epilepsy pediatric teams