Creating a standardised referral pathway allows effective surveillance enabling safer management of patients awaiting a specialist assessment. Centralised monitoring of all referred patients minimises complication rates and reduces work loads for GPs and specialists.

For each clinical pathway proactive population health management will identify:

• The number of patients

• Adherence to best practice monitoring

• Numbers of patients approaching key quality timeline thresholds

• Identification of variability across our region

• Instant actions to reducing patient risk

• Complex problems can be rapidly escalated to specialists