The NHS spends more treating cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases than any other illness – £7.4 billion pay for CVD alone and yet are up to 80% preventable. PocDoc aims to help ease the pressure on overwhelmed health systems in the UK and internationally and they have developed innovative smartphone-based technology that enables clinical-grade screening at home, at work or in the community for cardio, metabolic and renal diseases.
PocDoc’s flagship product, the ‘Healthy Heart Check delivers the equivalent of an NHS Health Check in 10 minutes, as opposed to 2 (or more) appointments in primary care. Patients can be connected in real-time to digital treatment pathways, results are shared back into the record and into the NHS app. The ‘Healthy Heart Check’ delivers a full cholesterol profile, BMI score, calculates heart age, and provides a ten-year risk assessment for heart attacks or strokes – all in under 10 minutes.
PocDoc are supporting the NHS’ Three Key Shifts that will fundamentally change how care is delivered.
Treatment to prevention: Supports the shift from treatment to prevention through a digital and easily accessible screening service that syncs with the NHS app and integrates results into patient’s official medical records.
Analogue to digital: PocDoc is supporting the transition of the NHS from analogue to digital with its innovative smartphone-based technology.
Hospitals to communities: PocDoc makes mass-screening in communities, workplaces and homes a reality, thus removing the need for a hospital or GP appointment while ensuring full continuity of care through the system-level interoperability.
NHS England estimates that each digital health check delivered outside of a GP surgery could save 20 minutes of Primary Care time, freeing up thousands of GP appointments.