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What is Pathpoint ePOA?
Pathpoint ePOA is a cloud-based preoperative assessment platform designed to free up clinical time so you can optimise patients before surgery and build a pool of surgery-ready patients, helping you cut waiting times and streamline elective care. It achieves this by automating screening, generating complexity scores from patients' questionnaire responses, and supporting downstream perioperative pathway management.
How will it benefit you?
Reduces admin workload
Enables more efficient patient prioritisation
Improves communication
Fewer inpatients and shorter stays
Decreases cancellations
Aligns with GIRFT
Improves patient flow
Saves time and capacity
Proven success
100% of patients receive a screening questionnaire 24 hours after being added to a waiting list.
2/3 of patients completed their questionnaires, got a complexity score, and were ready for optimisation within 4 days
65.43% of patients completed their questionnaire on the same day
The time taken to complete the questionnaire remained consistent across all age groups, showing ease of use and accessibility for all patients
Number of POAs per week increased by 25%, indicating an improvement in capacity to handle more patients
Highly granular data capture, helping to improve timely patient optimisation with early identification of key health issues:
14.5% as active smokers
9.6% with type 2 Diabetes
26.5% with high blood pressure
How does it work?
ePOA screening & complexity stratification
ePOA workflow
ePOA passed
✓ Early screening questionnaire sent automatically when preoperative assessment is triggered
✓ Automatically assesses patient complexity with GIRFT risk matrix
✓ Universal, targeted, complex pre-surgery support provided
✓ Patient scores calculated automatically from questionnaires
✓ Health information sent to patient based on their condition and procedure
Real-time visibility
Accessible, up-to-date patient journey for all users
Power filters
Simple filterable work lists by complexity, specialty, or completion
Contextual links
System connection to reduce login frequency
Temporary tags
Temporary patient labels to highlight require care/action
Escalated state
Easily escalate for anaesthetic review, including reasons why
Easy export
Direct access to granular data for service planning and evaluation
Secure communication
Single point of contact with timestamps for audits
Automatic triggers
Notifications for POA completion to proceed with booking and scheduling
Safeview
Secure patient information sent via SMS or email
Remind a patient
Automatic triggers to prompt questionnaire completion
Hear what our clients are saying
The platform is a fully cloud-based system, so we can securely access patient information remotely from wherever we are working. It is far more reliable than our previous paper-based solutions, as patient information is fully centralised and can be accessed from anywhere. It is brilliant from a patient safety point of view, as all the information is easily accessible and every action is tracked. We can identify where each patient is in their pathway at any time. Pathpoint has resulted in less surgical cancellations.
Dr Savita Marathe,
Lead POA Anaesthetic Consultant, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Value for Everyone
Payers
- High-quality data capture
- Enhanced outcomes tracking
- Secure and user-friendly platform
- KPIs, research and service improvement
- Resource optimisation
- Cost savings
- Reduced carbon footprint
Clinical Teams
- Automated risk stratification
- Reduced admin workload
- Easy access to full patient data
- Clear patient status viability
- Efficient resource allocation and planning
- Improved communication
Administration
- Minimised cancellations
- Seamless teamwork and cloud-based system
- High quality data
- Improved population health management
- Reduced costs
- Reduced burden on specialist pre-operative nursing staff
Patients
- Reduced wait times
- Minimised complications
- Personalised care
- Reduced unnecessary patient travel
- Improved experience and satisfaction
- Empowered to take control of your health
As seen in
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Implementing a digital tool that assists in surgical planning and risk stratification.
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals
Enhancing preoperative assessment processes to help manage the elective surgical backlog.