Medbelle and Aberdeen Orthopaedics companion for improved personal care

A brand new partnership between digital healthcare firm Medbelle and Scotland’s largest personal specialist group for musculoskeletal circumstances helps to reinforce help for personal sufferers.

Aberdeen Orthopaedics is a bunch of 12 skilled musculoskeletal consultants, all of whom are actually partnered with Medbelle to make sure that sufferers can simply make appointments with no prior GP appointment or referral.

Sometimes, personal sufferers should organise their very own appointments and scans, coping with a fragmented sector the place paperwork aren’t at all times shared routinely or electronically, resulting in delays.

Medbelle delivers a digital pathway for personal sufferers, supporting them to debate their care with a private affected person care advisor, e-book therapies on-line and entry info on pricing and procedures. This helps to enhance the expertise of Aberdeen Orthopaedics’ sufferers and offers them time to give attention to making ready for and recovering from any therapy.

James Bidwell, a specialist decrease limb surgeon and member of Aberdeen Orthopaedics, mentioned: “Our community has at all times aimed to enhance the affected person expertise by adopting the newest gear or surgical strategies. This strategy also needs to apply to different points of affected person care, like help with logistics, the referral course of, and clear steerage. This partnership with Medbelle permits us to proceed bettering the affected person expertise.”

Medbelle helps personal sufferers from preliminary enquiry proper by way of to aftercare. Its know-how additionally helps the evaluation of affected person outcomes, which provides clinicians the chance to evaluate the influence of various therapies to make sure they’re at all times striving to ship improved outcomes.

Dan Howcroft, Medbelle chief medical officer, mentioned: “The huge medical expertise of Aberdeen Orthopaedics will play an necessary position in Medbelle’s mission to enhance entry to high-quality personal healthcare. As extra folks depend on personal therapy, it’s extra necessary than ever that the sector enhances affected person help.”