TurnKey Validation
Solution 

We know there are times when Trusts require external validation capacity to support their internal teams. Given that validating patient records can have profound impacts on patient care, it is essential that the validation provided is of the highest standard. That’s why all of our validation solutions are subject to rigorous quality assurance processes and offer absolute transparency, providing you with the peace of mind that your patients are in the safest of hands.

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Our validation solutions are broadly categorised into three common areas of need.

AVOID

unnecessary outpatient attendances

ENSURE

clinician time and Trust spend is not waisted on unnecessary activity 

REDUCE

risk of clinical harm 

1 

Follow Up Waiting List Validation

Follow Up patients are potentially the cohort at greatest risk of clinical harm, for example, if the Follow Up date has been exceeded by a clinically relevant period of time. Also, unnecessary outpatient attendances are very common, leading to wasted clinician time and Trust spend. Through numerous programmes of work validating Follow Up waiting lists we identified that on average 18% of outpatient attendances are unnecessary and can be removed when validated. We also found that on average, 26% of patients are overdue their Follow Up by a clinically significant period of time. Removing the unnecessary outpatient attendances and identifying the patients overdue their follow up supports the Trust in prioritising activity to focus on the patients with pressing clinical need.

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Click here to read more about our Follow Up Waiting List Validation Solution.

MINIMISE

Waiting List Size

EMPOWER

informed operational decision making

SUPPORT

elective care recovery

2

Incomplete PTL Validation

Source Group’s Incomplete PTL validation solution targets pathways that are the most likely to result in a PTL removal when validated, such as:          

 

  • Non-RTT pathways that are live but should not be on the Incomplete PTL          

  • Pathways that have been discharged but remain on the PTL          

  • Duplicates

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Click here to read more about our Incomplete PTL Validation Solution.

ENSURE

your patients are safe

IDENTIFY

cohorts at risk of clinical harm  

ASCERTAIN

the current status of all patients

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Open Referrals Validation 

Source Group’s open referrals validation solution assists in identifying Lost referrals where the patient requires an action that the Trust is unaware of and won’t be identified through the existing protocols. The validation exercise will close down inactive referrals and escalate lost referrals to the Trust for action.

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Click here to read more about our Open Referrals Validation.

Selected supplier of 3 NHSE/I commissioned national data quality programmes

Validated over 3 million pathways across 75 Acute Trusts 

Analysed over 200 million pathways spanning 137 Acute Trusts 

Our Experience

Source Group are the leading validation solutions provider to the NHS

Assurance that your patients are in the safest hands 

 Guaranteed outcomes within budget and to deadline

 Immediate impact, sustained improvements 

Best Practice Validation Methodology

Source Group conceived and utilises best practice validation methodology

“I would highly recommend Source Group as a validation provider and

Clear PTL as a validation management tool”  

 

Tracey Sentence – Head of Operations - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust