AssistBCD is an interactive, clinical decision-making tool designed locally with multi-disciplinary collaboration. Its aim is to support healthcare professionals to provide evidence-based care to individuals at high risk of, or living with, diabetes. The tool is embedded in SystmOne, which is used by all practices and diabetes specialist teams within the Bradford district and Craven area. It is designed to reduce variability, increasing parity and equity in service delivery across the district, and to standardise and support evidence-based decision making. The aim is to help prevent diabetes and improve clinical outcomes and quality of life for those living with diabetes.
Dr Maz Begum, a divisional lead for diabetes for Modality and GP at Kilmeny Surgery, has been an early adopter of Assist BCD and an invaluable critical friend, supporting with suggestions on additions, amendments, tweaks and resources to improve the tool from a clinician’s user perspective.
Dr Begum gave us her feedback on Asssit; ‘’The pathways are clear & evidence based, reducing clinical inertia, making it easier to support patients with diet, lifestyle and medication changes. It is also a great tool to support the training of all level of staff involved in diabetes care.’’
The Assisting Bradford and Craven Beating Diabetes (ASSIST BCD) project won the 'Clinical Pathways Using Technologies' award at the Quality in Care Awards in November 2022.
Judges' comments:
"The judges could see that the ASSIST BCD project was massively useful and could be modified for different pathways. It is clearly designed to make an improvement. It was clear that there were lots of elements in this system to deliver best care to patients. The customer focus and feedback were strong, as were the financial savings. Overall, it was a great entry and a number of the judges want to use it afterwards!"
Further feedback
Below are just some of the positive feedback comments received from the project's Assist training sessions using Menti;
