Why good chronic care is about more than just delivering medication
As anyone with a chronic health condition knows, managing day-to-day life can be complex and sometimes overwhelming. It’s also something that doesn’t go away. Medication is essential, but it’s only one piece of the jigsaw. During chronic disease awareness month this July, we’re giving a shout out to all our clinical homecare teams, to celebrate the difference they make across the country, every day.
Living with a chronic condition can be challenging. Dealing with the symptoms, treatments and regular care routines can impact on every aspect of day-to-day life. From sticking to a rigid daily routine to managing everyday tasks when facing ongoing challenges, chronic conditions can affect people’s wellbeing both physically and emotionally.
We know this can feel like a lonely journey, but with ongoing support from our homecare teams, patients can see a real improvement in outcomes.
What holistic care looks like at Sciensus
Sciensus has more than 500 specially-trained clinicians with expertise in over 70 chronic condition therapy areas including many complex regimes. We meet the complex medical needs of 300,000 patients every year and make over 100,000 clinical deliveries every month.
Chronic patients often have to manage their medications every day, not just during clinic visits, and we’re there for them every step of the way. Everyone is different and we work with patients to deliver just the level of care that they need. This can range from simply dispensing and delivering their medication to teaching them to self-administer.
Chronic condition patients often require regular injections, infusions or complex treatment regimens. By delivering care at home, our teams improve levels of independence and convenience. With consistent support from clinicians they know, we also build trusted relationships with individuals and their families.
Our Sciensus Intouch digital support app enables patients to manage their medication and peripheral orders, check their prescription status, connect with online communities and track deliveries. Our health and wellbeing features are designed to support patients and help them get the most out of their medication.
We also reduce the pressure on hospital teams by taking on the ongoing care for patients and updating them through the Sciensus Connect app for clinicians. The app offers a real-time view into patient progress, delivery tracking, prescription timelines and adherence ‒ all built with and for the NHS.
We work with nearly 200 NHS organisations across the UK, as well as many care boards accessing NHS regional frameworks.
Reliable, specialist medicine delivery and adherence support
Making sure that medication arrives on time isn’t just about getting the logistics right so that patients know when to be around for deliveries. It’s about creating a responsive, stable service that patients and clinicians can rely on.
The Sciensus fleet supports patients across the country and is temperature-controlled for medication safety. Its 98% direct delivery model runs from 16 distribution centre and offers the reliability needed for even high-cost, low-volume meds.
Medication support is also included in the Sciensus Intouch app through medication reminders, stock tracking, injection site monitoring, blood test prompts and patient reported outcome and life quality capture tools ‒ all in one intuitive platform.
The difference it makes
Our clinical homecare teams improve lives every day – by supporting greater empowerment and independence for patients and reducing the stress of unnecessary hospital visits. Helping them to stick to their treatment regimens means patients make the most of their medications and live their best lives.
Empowered patients are crucial for success for clinical teams too. Improved medication adherence and resulting outcomes reduces pressure on hospital teams. It allows clinicians the space and time to support other patients who need their dedicated treatment at crucial points, such as a new diagnosis. Through the increased adherence, Sciensus teams also support the overall cost pressures faced by the NHS of looking after this key group of patients.
Conclusion
We recognise that long term medication adherence won’t just happen on its own – it needs to be created through a holistic approach to care and lifestyle support.
Empowered patients are adherent patients. Sciensus doesn’t just deliver medication. We educate and support patients through our nurse check-ins and online tools that make a real difference.
Good chronic care isn’t about dealing with medication and illness. It’s about understanding people and their wellbeing. Through our wraparound care we help patients to live better lives, by reducing the impact of their condition.
By delivering care at home, our teams improve levels of independence and convenience for patients. With consistent support from clinicians they know, we also build trusting relationships with patients, for long term successful treatment.
Find out more about how we support chronic condition patients.