Why switch to BSPS ?
BSPS enhances patient care
The longer that patients have to wait for treatment, the greater the risk to the patient and the greater the likelihood of a poor outcome. Two of the major factors contributing to delays in patients receiving treatment are limited access to phlebotomy, long/infrequent specimen collection times and a long wait for results
- With BSPS, the frequency of sample collection times is increased and tailored to your requirements, meaning that tests can be requested soon and you can have quicker access to results.
- BSPS allows you to provide an accurate diagnosis more quickly and therefore offering significant improvements in patient care
- Managed as an end to end clinical service, BSPS the needs of clinicians and helps you to get the diagnosis and treatment right first time
- BSPS can also provide, much needed, additional phlebotomy services via fully trained Health Care Assistants (HCAs).
- The cost of these can be incorporated within the unit test costs, or provided as a separate enhanced service.
- Our HCAs have the additional clinical skills to support practices’ requirements for patient health and well-being, HCAs can support practices to achieve QOF related outcomes, such as:
- Blood pressure, pulse rate and rhythm
- Temperature, height and weight - BMI
- Visual acuity, venepuncture
- ECG, glucose tolerance test
- Peak flow reading, inhaler technique, spirometry
With BSPS you can see benefits quickly
- No direct CCG investment required so no capital approval process required
- Practice conversion can be achieved quickly without any disruption to the service
- Practical benefits seen at a practice level very quickly
BSPS is already offering the following benefits to more than 250 GP practices, Independent Healthcare Providers and community hospitals
- Online test requests automatically entered on patient records provide an audit trail from request to result minimising delayed or missing results
- Same day/next day results available electronically for routine tests, enabling earlier treatment interventions
- Easy-read printed labels for sample bottles
- More frequent and flexible sample collection times agreed with the practice to meet GP needs, eg extended hours
- New GP practices registering with BSPS can be supplied with in-lab sample stability procedures which enable practices to:
- Provide flexible phlebotomy sessions which do not need to coincide with sample collection times
- Collect specimens at the time of patient presentation, rather than returning to be bled at another time
- Have confidence in the electrolyte results for samples bled after the usual sample collection time
- Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and out of hours visits to investigate patients with pseudohyperkalaemia
- Reduce the financial impacts by repeating tests unnecessarily
- Dedicated service development team to support service improvement and development for your practice
- Direct access GP helpline for direct access to clinical help and support
BSPS meets everyone's needs
The major areas of focus for pathology provision are being shaped by:
- World class commissioning – reducing inequalities in healthcare in the long term
- Disease management both quality and outcomes
- Practice base commissioning – commissioning services more locally
- Darzi – Focussing on quality
- Carter – Focussing on efficiency
BSPS is an end to end solution which enables everyone responsible for delivering health care to achieve their goals
BSPS represents excellent value for money
- We operate a transparent pricing structure where you pay for what you use.
- All services are on a cost per test basis on agreed volume. Certain other costs however may lie outside the cost per test structure where needed.
- We provide information on where spend is and so enable more efficient use of budget
- Better visibility of what money is being spent on. this will enable practices, CCGs, independent health care providers to
- Benchmark
- Report and data analysis on practice usage
- Minimize redundant testing
- Highlight where testing is irregular
- Analyse test trends by practices within practice, and across PBC groups
- Analyse test trends by practices to CCG
- BSPS is happy to discuss commercial terms with any customer, including volume discounts