Community Treatment Centres

The current healthcare landscape is focused on growing diagnostic capacity in order to reduce backlogs across England, exacerbated by the recent pandemic and backed by a £2.3billion¹ investment from government to realise Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC). CDCs represent an important first step in the shift to out of hospital care, providing access to “right first time” diagnostic services, closer to patients' homes.

Whilst CDCs will help to tackle and reduce diagnostic backlogs, it is also essential to focus on the impact that waiting lists are having on treatment backlogs.

Increasing treatment backlogs

In written evidence submitted by The NHS Confederation (CB0058) to parliament, the NHS Confederation² and the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimate that treatment waiting lists could rise to 13 million³.

The British Medical Association has estimated that even if the NHS were to run at 110 per cent of its pre-COVID-19 capacity, it could take up to five years to reduce the backlog of elective care in England back down to (already high) 2019 levels⁴.

In order to start to address current treatment backlogs and plan for future waves, a similar CDC community-based model for low acuity, high volume treatments, represents a clear opportunity to restructure interventional ways of working.

What are Community Treatment Centres (CTC)

Community Treatment Centres (CTC) are often referred to around the world as office-based labs (OBL) or ambulatory surgery centres (ASC), and are key to transforming current models of elective care delivery.

Presently CTCs do not exist within the NHS, yet have the ability to move routine procedures out of hospital, freeing up space to focus on complex procedures, streamlining in-hospital processes, potentially increasing patient and staff satisfaction and enabling lower cost of care.

CTC based procedures could include (but not limited to):

Pacemaker and ICD box changes

Lower limb vascular diagnostics and intervention

Contrast stress echoes

Pre-procedural screening to assess aortic valve functions

Loop recorder implants (ILRs)

Other routine procedures (including heart failure quantification and screening)

Through re-directing the above procedures to out-of-hospital environments and away from traditional in-hospital settings, CTCs have the ability to relieve pressures on care providers, whilst improving patient experience through fewer journeys, enabling easier access and establishing earlier diagnosis and treatment.

Partnering to realise Community Treatment Centres

Philips partners with NHS and independent sector providers to accelerate growth of local treatment centres out of existing hospital environments, through providing infrastructure, world-class technologies, integrated information systems and enabling solutions which drive clinical, patient and staff experiential, operational and financial outcomes.

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Delivering Community Treatment Centres in modern settings

At Philips, we partner to realise out-of-hospital services that meet the goals of the quadruple aim: enhancing the patient experience, improving health outcomes, lowering the cost of care and improving the work life of care providers.

Our fixed, mobile and modular Community Treatment Centres are both inspiring and easy to access, led by evidence-based design. The positive impact of this approach can be measured in terms of improved outcomes and the experience for patients and staff.

We leverage our global expertise, tools and methodologies, to develop safe, quality, innovative facilities across Radiology, Cardiology, Oncology, Respiratory and Sleep health spaces, incorporating the latest technologies and immersive experience solutions.

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Improving staff experience

Philips believes that moving from traditional hospital settings into Community Treatment Centres, could support improved staff satisfaction and experience.
Unlike the dynamic and unpredictable environments of traditional hospital settings, working in CTC settings could provide a more predictable daily routine which allows for a less stressful, more guaranteed environments with dedicated, set clinical workloads.

Philips partners to deliver CTCs which aim to meet the goals of the quadruple aim: enhancing patient experience, improving health outcomes, lowering the cost of care, whilst improving staff experience and satisfaction.

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Enabling access to leading image-guided therapy technologies

Philips’ portfolio of image-guided therapy (IGT) solutions uniquely integrate best in class imaging systems and software, with specialised diagnostic and therapeutic devices to support exceptional treatment for even the most complex procedures.

Philips Azurion is an innovative image guided therapy platform that enables healthcare organisations to easily integrate and confidently perform procedures with a unique user experience, helping to optimise Community Treatment Centre performance and provide superior care.

Our ‘fixed’ image-guided therapy systems aim to remove barriers to safer, more effective, and more predictable treatments outcomes, delivering relevant clinical value where it’s needed most - at the point of patient treatment.

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Innovative patient care – getting your results

Waiting for results can be an anxious time for patients. Philips innovative patient care solutions enable healthcare professionals to remotely connect with patients and support better management of chronic and complex conditions, enabling people to control their own health and wellbeing.

Philips applications enable patients to receive reminders, engage with health coaching, respond to surveys and questionnaires and message or video call their health professional in a single digital portal.

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World-class ultrasound & mobile C-arm systems

Community-based ultrasound services support GPs in progressing patients along their pathways to treatment as quickly as possible. Community Treatment Centres, mobile and modular hubs can be configured to provide a "one-stop" approach to investigation, diagnosis and treatment for patients.

Philips provides ultrasound technologies and integrated information system solutions, which enable confident diagnosis and patient care. From handheld devices to premium cart-based systems, our point-of-care portfolio is comprehensive, ergonomic and intuitive.

Philips mobile C-arm systems deliver low dose, world-class image quality while offering healthcare organisations ease of use and future-fit capabilities.

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Pre & post operation recovery spaces

Community treatment centres focus on low acuity low risk procedures which encourages same-day-discharge procedures. The intimate recovery ward enables high quality monitoring and patient surveillance, enabled through Philips solutions, to ensure best patient experience and procedural outcomes.

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Philips as your technology partner

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Building: Modular, Permanent

Philips’ Hospital Infrastructure Team works with specialist healthcare modular and construction partners, to ensure CTC layouts are pandemic-resilient and optimised and stress tested for diagnostic workflow, patient and staff experience.

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Interim: Mobile, Relocatable

Philips enables a range of interim solutions which provides increased capacity to support opportunities in reduction of diagnostic backlogs whilst permanent CTCs are being built.

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Clinical and Operational Staffing

Philips supports workforce through our partners, including interim services and integrated workforce models to ensure staff rotation, education and development.

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Clinical and Operational Transformation

Philips views CTCs as multi partner education centres of excellence. Philips leverage technology to support and educate staff, leading to improved patient outcomes.

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Equipment, Informatics & Service

Philips enables access to the latest innovative imaging technology:

World class Interventional imaging systems and devices – integrating best-in-class imaging systems, software with specialised diagnostic and therapy devices

Ultrasound – Delivering exceptionally accurate image quality

PACS and Integration Solutions - Philips are market leaders through our acquisition of Carestream and Forcare to ensure seamless interoperability.

Intellispace Cardiovascular – multi modality image and information management solution

Patient Navigation Manager - End-to-end patient communication tools which improve experience and reduce ‘no shows’

World class Interventional imaging systems & devices

Best-in-class Ultrasound

Intellispace Cardiovascular

Patient Navigation Manager

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Financing; Unitary Payments

Philips provides a range of options, from unitary payments to subscription, to finance Community Treatment Centres

Philips enables shared risk and outcomes-based finance models, which drive productivity and improved outcomes.

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Population Health and Clinical Pathways

Philips work together with providers to design specialist pathways, which improve efficiency and outcomes across health spaces including radiology, oncology, cardiology, respiratory care and more.

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Community Treatment Centres: The future of out-of-hospital intervention

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^1. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-6bn-nhs-budget-boost-clear-covid-scan-treatment-backlogs-1266234

^2. https://www.nhsconfed.org/news/backlogs-13-million-are-nightmare-scenario-must-be-prevented

^3. Could NHS waiting lists really reach 13 million? George Stoye, Max Warner and Ben Zaranko, August 2021, Institute for Fiscal Studies

^4. NHS Digital (2021) NHS Vacancy Statistics England April 2015-June 2021, which details all vacancy-related data provided for the NHS in England and sourced from NHS England and NHS Improvement, NHS Jobs, Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and Trac Recruitment Management Software (Trac), with vacancy defined as "a post that is unfilled by permanent or fixed-term staff“: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/april-2015---june-2021-experimental-statistics

Strategic Partnerships

Increasing treatment backlogs

What are Community Treatment Centres (CTC)

Partnering to realise Community Treatment Centres

Delivering Community Treatment Centres in modern settings

Improving staff experience

Enabling access to leading image-guided therapy technologies

Innovative patient care – getting your results

World-class ultrasound & mobile C-arm systems

Pre & post operation recovery spaces

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Philips as your technology partner

Building: Modular, Permanent

Interim: Mobile, Relocatable

Clinical and Operational Staffing

Clinical and Operational Transformation

Equipment, Informatics & Service

Financing; Unitary Payments

Population Health and Clinical Pathways

Community Treatment Centre related articles

Transform your care with a Strategic Partnership