Established in
March 2001
A BSE Accredited Department
Member The NHS Confederation
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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
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