The Service

Delivering Quality and Value

Echotech provides an integrated, flexible and quality assured Echo service.

Echotech delivers an 'end to end’ service from patient booking to on-line access to reports and study images.

Echotech is structured to maximise efficiency. Resources are concentrated on clinical expertise, with minimal non-clinical staff operating centrally. Efficiency is thus optimised and bureaucracy is minimised.

Echotech depolys single Echo 'units', equipment and staff, across institutional boundaries and therefore allows resources to be shared between commissioning organisations.

All clinical operations are overseen by the Echotech Clinical lead, Dr. Rajan Sharma, Consultant Cardiologist Echocardiography Specialist. Dr. Sharma is supported by a Clinical Operations Director and a regional structure of Clinical Operations Managers.

Key Elements of the Echotech service:

Simple Efficient Pathway
Fully managed, simple care pathway supporting the delivery of the 18 week RTT target

BSE Accredited Department
Formal recognition of clinical quality and standards

Full Clinical Governance arrangements
Including clinical supervision, training and continuing education

Primary Care focused Report
Clear descriptive terminology
Onward Cardiology recommendations
Available on the day of the scan

On line access to Study Images
Images available in real time
Supports peer review and quality assurance
Eliminates need to re-scan in the Acute Sector

All equipment and consumables provided
Includes ultrasound machines

Full service evaluation provided
Includes weekly 'patient tracker’ spreadsheets and Quality Accounts

Patient Management Centre
Patient booking and administration service
Waiting time of less than 2 weeks from GP referral1
DNA rate of less than 2%1

Out of hours clinics available
Including evenings and weekends

GP educational support
Free of charge GP echo handbooks
Community Echocardiography seminars

Back up 'echo units’ on standby

1 Quality Accounts. All PMC Managed Contracts