Revolutionising Community Midwifery with eCommunity
Karen Swinson, Clinical Lead, RLDatix
We’re delighted to announce that Swansea Bay University Health Board has chosen eCommunity, our state-of-the-art workforce planning tool to transform their Community Midwifery services. Approximately 60 midwives are now using eCommunity to manage patient referrals, treatments and home visits with over 2,000 patient records uploaded as part of a seamless rollout.
This week marks the Health Board’s “soft” start with the system, running it in parallel with existing processes. From Monday, they will fully transition to using eCommunity exclusively, setting the stage for improved efficiency and workflow.
Empowering Community Midwifery with eCommunity
eCommunity is a purpose-built workforce planning tool designed to meet the unique challenges of community healthcare. By leveraging intelligent scheduling, capacity management, and data interoperability, eCommunity significantly enhances workforce productivity, patient safety, and staff wellbeing.
Through Swansea Bay University Health Board’s adoption of eCommunity, the following benefits are set to reshape their midwifery services:
- Individualised Patient Care Needs: eCommunity allows midwives to tailor care plans based on each patient’s unique requirements, ensuring personalised and responsive care delivery.
- Continuity of Care principles: The system facilitates consistent care by ensuring patients are seen by the same midwife or team whenever possible, strengthening patient-midwife relationships and improving health outcomes.
- Efficient Scheduling: Intelligent tools match midwives’ skills to patient needs, reducing the risk of rescheduling visits due to skill gaps.
- Improved Patient Care: Increased patient-facing time and optimised staff allocation ensure resources are used effectively to provide the highest standard of care.
- Cost Efficiency: By minimising travel times, eliminating duplicated or missed visits, and reducing administrative overheads, eCommunity unlocks significant cost savings.
- Enhanced Staff Wellbeing: Clear workload visibility, streamlined processes, and achievable schedules foster a more supportive environment for midwives, promoting staff satisfaction and retention.
- Actionable Data Analytics: Robust reporting and comprehensive utilisation data empower healthcare providers to make data-driven decisions and demonstrate tangible value to commissioners.
Commitment to Excellence
By adopting eCommunity, Swansea Bay University Health Board is setting new standards in community healthcare delivery. This transition exemplifies their commitment to providing efficient, safe, and patient-centric midwifery services.
For us at RLDatix, this partnership reflects our mission of empowering healthcare providers with innovative tools to overcome operational challenges and deliver outstanding care.
Karen Swinson, Clinical Lead at RLDatix said “Having this ability to accurately deploy appropriately skilled practitioners to individualised patient care needs will ensure the most efficient and safe care is provided across the community midwifery teams at Swansea Bay.
Increasing direct patient care activity whilst minimising staff travel times between patient visits reduces costs, increases staff wellbeing, productivity, and retention through transparent visibility of achievable workloads and I am delighted this priority has been afforded to maternity services here.”
We look forward to working closely with Swansea Bay University Health Board throughout this transition to ensure seamless integration, measurable results, and continued success. We’ll continue to share their progress on this journey.
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