{"id":25396,"date":"2025-04-16T18:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25396\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:09:31","slug":"chelsea-and-westminster-pilots-clinical-letters-tool-on-fdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25396\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea and Westminster pilots clinical letters tool on FDP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is running user acceptance testing for a Referral to Treatment (RTT) clinical letters validation tool on the <\/strong>federated data platform (FDP).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tool is designed to streamline RTT pathway management by automatically identifying letters mentioning \u2018discharge\u2019 or \u2018discharged\u2019 \u2013 potentially highlighting patients ready for removal \u2013 and those referencing \u2018rapid access\u2019 clinics, which could signal pathway closures.<\/p>\n

The tightly scoped live test is intended to provide real-world insights into how the module can help Chelsea and Westminster reduce review times and optimise its RTT processes, according to the April 2025 FDP bulletin from NHS England.<\/p>\n

In the bulletin, Ming Tang, chief data analytics officer and newly appointed interim<\/a> chief digital and information officer at NHSE, said that implementation targets for the FDP have been exceeded, with 72 hospital trusts now realising benefits from use of the platform, surpassing NHSE\u2019s goal of 71 for this financial year.<\/p>\n

It adds that 108 hospital trusts, up from 96 in February 2025<\/a>, and 41 integrated care boards have signed up to the FDP.<\/p>\n

Tang said: \u201cThis spring marks a pivotal milestone as the NHS FDP completes its first year of operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact on patient care has been immediate and meaningful, with the platform supporting 70,000 extra surgeries through increased theatre utilisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has been an 18.8% decrease in the average number of delay days for long stay patients for trusts using the FDP, the bulletin highlights.<\/p>\n

It also said that there has been an increase in the checks that the right actions have been taken along the patient care pathway, with more than 270,000 patients removed from the waiting list for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving successfully established the programme\u2019s foundation, our second year focuses on amplifying impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have created a dedicated workstream to partner with Community and Mental Health NHS Trusts, addressing their specific challenges through tailored data solutions,\u201d Tang said.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, NHSE announced that a cancer diagnostic pathway<\/a> management service is among the new products running on the FDP to go live in 2025.<\/p>\n

The Cancer 360 service connects data from disparate systems about patients on a cancer diagnosis pathway.<\/p>\n

This \u201ctransforms cancer diagnostic pathway management with a single automatically updated patient tracking list, with active pathway management, escalation mechanisms and data driven performance insights\u201d, NHSE said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in March 2025 the Chief Data and Analytics Officers Network (CDAON) raised concerns<\/a> about whether the FDP is capable of supporting local health systems.<\/p>\n

In an open letter<\/a> to Tang, Dr Marc Farr<\/a>, chair of the CDAON and national chair of the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts, said\u00a0that the FDP programme is promoting \u201cthe adoption of specific tools or modules on a single software platform\u201d as opposed to the integration of data and interoperability.<\/p>\n

The NHSE 2025\/26 priorities and operational planning guidance,\u00a0published on 30 January 2025<\/a>, mandates that all systems adhere to the\u00a0\u2018FDP first\u2019 policy<\/a>, connecting their own digital and data infrastructure to the FDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is running user acceptance testing for a Referral to Treatment (RTT)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[15562,15563,15564,105,4348,15565,10080,15566,15567,15568,15569,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-25396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-cancer-360","9":"tag-chelsea-and-westminster-hospital-nhs-foundation-trust","10":"tag-fdp","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ming-tang","14":"tag-nhs-england","15":"tag-nhs-federated-data-platform","16":"tag-nhse","17":"tag-referral-to-treatment-clinical-letters-validation-tool","18":"tag-rtt","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114348986644417615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}