See Florence in action

The Diabetes Specialist Nursing (DSN) Team at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) provides services for patients with Type 1 & Type 2 diabetes in the north of Derbyshire.

The Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics has published a paper (volume 24, no. 4, 2017) describing NHS Lothian’s approach to integrating patient data generated via Flo into their local electronic medical record (EMR).

The Single Point of Access (SPA) is a one stop shop for referrals between Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ acute and community services.

Mental Health: Gateshead Talking Therapies offers a confidential service to people wishing to overcome problems triggered by feeling low, depressed, stressed or anxious focusing on helping people experiencing mild, moderately severe and first onset severe problems.

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: Liverpool Health Trainers is managed by Person Shaped Support, they help to empower and enable referred patients to manage their health better through education and support.

Oldham's podiatry team uses Florence to prompt people with diabetes to check their feet between clinic visits. The aim is to help patients notice problems sooner and seek specialist care before a wound deteriorates.

South Tyneside's Learning Disabilities Service used Florence to help a patient with mild learning disabilities take his medication more regularly. His mental health stabilized, reducing the need for continuing home visits and consultant psychiatrist appointments.

NHS Highland uses Florence to motivate people with intermittent claudication to keep exercising and to gather information about their condition at home. The approach is intended to support patients across a large rural area and create clinic capacity for those who need a face-to-face review.

A poster on early pulmonary rehabilitation following an acute exacerbation of COPD was presented at the UK Making Change Happen 2017 conference in Stoke-on-Trent. It describes work at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to increase adherence and safety for patients.

Iain Trayner, TEC Project Manager Urinary Continence: Using Florence to improve the lives of local people The NHS Western Isles Continence service provides advice and support to people living with the condition in these islands.

After a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy and advanced heart failure, Agnes uses Florence to text daily blood pressure and weight readings to the heart failure team in Stornoway. She describes Florence as bossy, but important to keeping her well at home.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, the impact of Florence as a means of reducing unnecessary in-person follow-ups after total hip and knee replacements has been significant.