getUbetter wins the HSJ Partnership Awards 2023: HealthTech Partnership of the Year

WINNER: HealthTech Partnership 2023

Meeting The Needs Of Patients, Clinicians And The Health System Across An ICS: getUbetter, NHS South West London and South West London ICS

NHS South West London ICS has been working with digital healthcare provider getUBetter in an innovative co-production partnership for four years. They have co-developed a system-wide digital self-management solution for all common musculoskeletal conditions, supporting self-management across the entire ICS care pathway. It helps people with new, recurrent or long-term conditions to have the confidence to self-manage, trust their recovery and use less healthcare resources.

We have significantly reduced over treatment and prescription. getUBetter is now providing its technology to 30 per cent of integrated care systems, is an NHSE digital playbook case study and is an NHS Innovation Accelerator company. The judges felt that this winning project consisted of a great range of partners working in collaboration.

Highly commended:

• On Your Mind Glos: Mace & Menter, Made Tech and NHS Gloucestershire

Finalists:

• Clinical Pathway Transformation Using AcuPebble Technology for Rapid, Accurate, At-Home Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Acurable and Royal Free Hospital

• Transforming Dermatology Care: Cinapsis and Cheshire and Merseyside ICB

• Supporting Frail Older Adults in Crisis to Avoid Unnecessary Hospital Admissions:Consultant Connect and South Warwickshire University FT

• End To End Digital Surgical Pathway: Definition Health and North Cumbria Integrated Care FT

• Health Call Solutions - Innovate, Digitise, Transform: Health Call Solutions, County Durham and Darlington FT, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals FT, South Tees Hospitals FT, Gasteshead Health FT, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear FT, North Tees and Hartlepool FT, and Northumbria Healthcare FT

• Digital-First Cardiac Care Using Remote Patient Monitoring: Huma, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, and Life Sciences Hub Wales

• Supporting Community Care: Islacare and Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT

About getUbetter:

getUBetter provides 24/7 self-management support, so people trust their recovery and are only re-directed to healthcare services when necessary. This means healthcare systems can provide a digitally enabled MSK pathways accross the whole pathway, so avoids silos of care and prevents over treatment.

Each element of the pathway is configured to the local health system and delivered to their population.

Patients are supported digitally through their recovery day-by-day with personalised, evidence-based behavior change techniques which includes symptom checking, nudges, videos, exercises and outcome measures.