Symptom-based testing and digital pathway tools to eliminate delayed diagnosis in breathlessness in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB

Leicester and Hinckley Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) are embarking on a groundbreaking collaboration with Lenus Health to digitally transform their breathlessness diagnostic pathway to enhance patient care and streamline healthcare delivery. Breathlessness, a distressing symptom affecting around 10% of the UK population. It is often notoriously complex to diagnose results in long delays to treatment for patients, with over 66% of cases caused by underlying cardiorespiratory diseases. The project will transform an existing symptom-based care pathway, using digital tools, to reduce delays to diagnosis. It will combine triage, parallel testing and a streamlined, integrated and structured approach to diagnosis data capture. By configuring the Lenus Diagnose pathway product, supplied by Lenus Health, the project aims to evidence significant reductions in … Continue reading Symptom-based testing and digital pathway tools to eliminate delayed diagnosis in breathlessness in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB