City Health Care Partnership has collaborated with Inhealthcare to launch a digital immunisations programme across schools in Hull. The service removes administration associated with gathering consent and provides health care professionals with a list of children to be vaccinated, reducing waste.
The problem
- Manual process of sending and collecting letters from parents and guardians
- Completion using paper forms is low
- Paper forms require manual re-entry into clinical record
- On the day of vaccination information is captured on paper
- There is no overall visibility of uptake across schools or the region
Solution
- The service allows parents and guardians to complete an online questionnaire to capture consent and other relevant information
- Raises notifications for healthcare professionals to review negative responses
- Provides a list of eligible children for vaccines within a smartphone app
- Integrates the results back into the patient community record
- Dashboard provides real time status of population uptake
- Alerts and lists of non-responders for targeted follow up
- A fully digital solution to be used across all vaccinations
Results
- 50% reduction in time spent at schools for vaccination sessions
- 4% increase in uptake in first wave at Hull schools