We keep hearing it, the NHS is facing mounting challenges; from increasing patient demand to workforce shortages and financial constraints. The King’s Fund’s 10-Year Health Plan outlines key shifts necessary for a sustainable healthcare future, including emphasis on diagnostic methods to aid in prevention of later illness, digital transformation, and shifting care from hospitals to community settings. THRIVE Diagnostic Hub, used primarily for Endoscopy currently, is perfectly positioned to support these priorities and drive meaningful change in the healthcare system in the UK.
Enhancing Productivity Through Digital Transformation
The 10-Year Health Plan emphasises the need for technology-driven efficiencies – which THRIVE is specifically designed to deliver. THRIVE leverages simplistic data entry, streamlined workflows, and real-time data analytics to reduce administrative burdens, supply standardised statistics, and enhance decision-making by providing comparable data over time. This not only improves departmental efficiency but also enables improvements to be launched, trialled and fed back on a much tighter timescale – boosting better results for all.
Reducing Waiting Lists by Achieving More
Prevention is a core pillar of the 10-Year Health Plan, and early detection is key to effective prevention. THRIVE, when used in Endoscopy departments specifically, is being used to support departments to book in and complete more procedures each week. Using data provided by THRIVE to understand the true duration of specific procedure types, turnaround times and the impacts of specialist procedures or sharing rooms with other diagnostics, the hospitals that have worked with THRIVE in the last 5 years have been able to identify extra opportunities and are now completing more vital preventative procedures.
Where Endoscopy works with a point system, we have seen a clear improvement in ability to plan and complete more ‘points’ over the time where THRIVE has been tracking outcomes. When we were presenting THRIVE at the HSJ event in early March 2025, we spoke on a specific example, as below where both Planned and Achieved points have increased noticeably in the last year:
These are results pulled from one specific hospital who currently use THRIVE and have seen their ability to plan more and therefore achieve more procedures increase steadily since tracking their statistics with THRIVE and reviewing their practices to make improvements.
By completing more procedures, diagnostic departments are able to reduce the waiting list and facilitate earlier and more accessible screenings, leading to quicker interventions and reducing the burden of late-stage disease treatments on the NHS. By catching issues early, the healthcare system can allocate resources more efficiently and improve patient outcomes.
Supporting a Strained Workforce
Staff shortages and burnout are critical challenges for healthcare providers. When using THRIVE in a diagnostic department, the workforce is also supported by simplifying the recording of procedures, reducing manual workload of data analysis and report creation, and integrating seamlessly into existing clinical pathways by being light-touch and standardised. With live reporting features and the team at Inform People producing more comprehensive point-in-time reports, clinicians and department administrators can focus on patient care rather than time-consuming admin.
In Conclusion
THRIVE Diagnostic Hub allows for healthcare diagnostic departments to embrace the key principles of the 10-Year Health Plan, aligning with NHS priorities to improve productivity, enhance access, and promote preventive care. By embracing innovative digital solutions that allow data interrogation and agile improvement plans, healthcare providers can transform aspects of their service delivery and build a more efficient and sustainable system for the future.
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