Sollis commissioning software sweeps south London
100 GP practices to improve management of patients with long-term conditions
More than 100 GP practices in south west London are to deploy the Sollis Clarity Commissioning Suite in an effort to better manage patients with long-term conditions.
The suite, which incorporates the John Hopkins University’s Adjusted Clinical Groups System, is being delivered to practices through the South London Commissioning Support Unit.
The rollout follows the success of a pilot at Cricket Green Medical Practice (CGMP) which reduced practice spend on unplanned hospital admissions by 18% over the past year. This equated to savings of more than £300,000 in total outpatient admission costs.
The pilot practice serves 9,000 patients in a highly-deprived area and has been using Sollis software since 2001 to help manage patients with long-term conditions such as COPD and diabetes.
The software provides real-time lists of patients who are at high risk of future hospital admission using disease code, primary and secondary care usage, patient demographics and medication spend to stratify patients into different bands.
This data is used by the clinicians as the basis for a weekly multi-disciplinary case discussion of patients on the high-risk list and to produce associated care plans.
CGMP GP, Dr Simon Gilbert, said the focus on the practice’s most-complex patients had contributed to the improvement of care for the whole population.
He added: “It helped drive key concepts around care planning and appropriate use of community resources to improve care and support the patient in the community.
”Going forward, I see the tool also has importance at a CCG or cluster level. Future commissioning decisions should be based on clinical insight and understanding the health needs of the population.”
Sollis managing director, Nigel Slone, added: “The story at CGMP clearly demonstrates how commissioning intelligence can make a real impact on patient care and outcomes.”
The software is now being rolled out among other surgeries in the area.
Slone said: “Sollis Clarity is currently processing something in the order of three million records worldwide. When these implementations are complete this number will rise to 5.5 million.”
