We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a contract by Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH) to provide our Bleepa® community diagnostic centre (CDC) solution.
Providing a digital infrastructure
This contract, which is worth £495,000 for an initial 12-month term with the ability to extend by another 12 months, has been awarded to Feedback as the successful bidder in a procurement process launched by QVH in November 2023. We will provide a digital infrastructure to facilitate patient specific pathways through the CDC, linking both primary and secondary care settings.
Successful pilot programme
We have already delivered cost and time savings at QVH initially through our pilot programme. The pilot has provided a substantial reduction in wait time compared to the national 18-week referral-to-treatment target, without the need for additional clinical staff. This contract award provides the opportunity for us to continue to deliver the core digital infrastructure required for the CDCs to reduce the elective care backlog and deliver a programme for the maximum benefit of staff, patients and the wider NHS. The success of Bleepa® at QVH provides a valuable case study for the wider market across the UK.
“We are extremely pleased to announce that after two years of piloting our CDC solution with QVH we have been awarded a contract for the Bleepa platform. This contract will allow us to now expand the service offering to multiple GP practices and move beyond the breathlessness pathway to look at other specialty areas.
“This contract award is a compelling validation of our technology. QVH is an example that speaks to the rest of the NHS and is the pioneer of the symptom-based pathway on Bleepa, an approach which has demonstrated huge potential to cut wait times and improve care for patients. This contract will give others the confidence to progress with this care model and our platform, allowing us to now move forward to capture both the regional and national opportunity in front of us and ultimately to bring better, faster care to patients across the UK.”
Dr Tom Oakley, CEO, Feedback plc