vMDT

Problem

Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are central to managing long-term conditions, frailty, and complex care needs across the NHS. However, in practice, MDT working remains fragmented, administratively burdensome, and heavily reliant on manual processes. Teams often depend on disconnected systems, spreadsheets, emails, and periodic meetings that do not reflect the dynamic needs of modern integrated care.

This leads to duplication of effort, delays in treatment optimisation, unclear accountability, and increased clinician workload. In rural and underserved areas, geographic and organisational barriers further limit timely access to specialist input, contributing to health inequalities.

As the NHS shifts towards neighbourhood-based, integrated care models, there is no standardised digital infrastructure that supports real-time, cross-organisational MDT collaboration.

vMDT addresses this gap by transforming MDTs from episodic meetings into continuous, structured workflows. It reduces administrative burden, improves transparency of actions, accelerates decision-making, and enables equitable access to multidisciplinary expertise — supporting sustainable workforce models and better outcomes for patients with long-term conditions.

Solution

vMDT replaces fragmented, meeting-based MDT processes with a secure, real-time digital workflow that supports continuous multidisciplinary collaboration across health and social care.

Any clinician in primary or community care can raise a request for MDT input. A structured case is automatically created within the platform, populated with relevant clinical information including medical history, medication data, investigations, and symptom scores. Team members can review cases asynchronously or schedule meetings using the inbuilt calendar, ensuring flexibility and inclusivity across organisations.

Decisions, actions, and referrals are recorded transparently, with automated task allocation and audit trails to ensure accountability and follow-up. This reduces duplication, shortens time to treatment optimisation, and removes unnecessary administrative burden.

By embedding pharmacy, community, hospital, and social care professionals within a shared digital workspace, vMDT transforms MDTs into an ongoing, data-driven process. This enables faster decision-making, improved productivity, and more equitable access to multidisciplinary expertise — supporting integrated neighbourhood care at scale.

Impact

Deployment of vMDT within Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the K2 Primary Care Federation (Grantham and Sleaford) has delivered measurable impact:

• 32% increase in MDT productivity through automated workflows and reduced administrative burden (Lincolnshire ICB)
• 28% improvement in treatment optimisation rates for long-term conditions, particularly heart failure (Lincolnshire ICB pilot sites)
• Clinician time saved per case, freeing clinical capacity for direct patient care (K2 Federation and neighbourhood MDTs)
• Standardised MDT processes across practices covering 130,000 patients (K2 Federation), improving consistency and equity of access
• Deployment supporting integrated neighbourhood MDTs across an initial 120,000 population within Lincolnshire ICB
• Estimated 4.2 tonnes CO₂ reduction annually from reduced clinician travel and paper use

Outcomes presented at European Society of Cardiology Congress (2023 and 2025) and recognised with the 2023 GP Award for Best Long-Term Conditions Project.
These results demonstrate real-world clinical, productivity, and system-level benefits.