CRAB
CRAB sections
Primary Care
The advent of free choice in primary care is creating similar market forces to the contestability now challenging the acute sector. Competing GP practices, Treatment centres and co-operatives, especially those moving into providing extended services (for example more day case surgery in out of hospital settings) will need to be able to validate the quality, safety and effectiveness of their care.
C-CI has a suite of starter tools for GPs to help with everyday practice. Find out more below. Ultimately, CRAB’s support for primary care sits in the overall framework of World Class Commissioning and central policy for reconfiguring local services. Increasingly commissioners will be perceived locally as investors; that is, they will commission to achieve the greatest health gains, return on investment and reduction in inequalities at best value. Find out how CRAB can help you achieve that.
Making the most of QoF?
CRAB can interrogate QoF data and start picking up clinical trends – helping GPs and practices to maximise their QoF income whilst focusing on delivering a service which is built on the principles of public health improvement and tackling health inequalities. This includes:
- picking up early signs of risks of co-morbidity (e.g. diabetes in pregnancy, cardiac disease for hypothyroid patients). Specific patient groups can be targeted in a clinically driven way for pre-emptive screening.
- Finding non-excepted patients outside QoF target ranges and understanding their clinical priorities.
- Producing effective peer practice group analyses of excepted patients and disease prevalence.
- Improving quality by disseminating practice from the best outliers.
Looking for an easy back-up system to inform and record referral decisions?
C-CI’s CRAB methodology enables comprehensive risk assessment of patients. It is designed to support GPs seeking an objective and clinically robust assessment of risk in terms of mortality and morbidity for patients being considered for surgery. It is not intended to supplant clinical judgment, but to supply instant support and auditable records which can help with:
- whether or not to make fast-track referrals for patients with suspected cancer.
- a fully informed choice discussion with the patient about relative risks and treatment choices.
- decisions as to whether more conservative / palliative forms of treatment should be recommended for particularly high-risk patients.
- creating an electronic record of assessments and discussions for future reference (particularly in the case of litigation)
- understanding the presence, or risk of undiagnosed co-morbidities for patients with one or more long term conditions.
Thinking of collaborating locally to provide community-based services?
Whatever the location – from local hospital to in-house clinics, let CRAB provide you with the fully connected solution which brings all your data together in one place.
Cracking the codes…
If your local provider is also using CRAB, CC-I can help to generate automatic discharge summaries which not only record patient treatments and advised treatments quickly and in electronic form; but correlate with GP system Read Codes: resource-intensive, duplicate coding for financial management can become a thing of the past!
