Specialty Areas

Patients Know Best (PKB) helps clinical teams of all specialities deliver care to their patients, with the use of secure messaging, care plans, a library of content and consultations. Giving patients the ability to view their health care data in their own Personal Health Records and the ability to message their team.

Within this section, PKB will share how teams are using PKB in different disease areas and the workflows mapped and used to support the patient and clinical pathways.

For support in creating a new patient pathway, please contact your Success PM.

Speciality areas:

How PKB can and is being used in different clinical settings to improve patient outcomes and support them to better self-manage their condition while also saving Trusts money and saving clinicians time. Each page includes workflows, content used by the team and any relevant case studies.

• Cardiology: to monitor conditions like heart failure and high blood pressure

• Consent: improving informed consent before a procedure or operation

• Dermatology: improving clinical pathways for Dermatology patients

• Diabetes: used in the prevention, early diagnosis and treatment

• Education: how to deploy the next generation of medication staff

• Gastroenterology: allow patients to track and monitor their IBD condition, saving hospital days

• Maternity: giving expected mothers access to digital care plans, their data and midwife

• Mental health: giving services users access to their data via an organisation roll out of PKB and the severe mental illness

• Oncology: including colorectal cancer teams

• Orthopaedics: used in pre and post-operative, physio and rheumatology

• Paediatrics: giving parents access to their child's data and team, including paediatric epilepsy

• Peri-Operative teams: how PKB is used in all aspects of the time around an operation

• Physiotherapy: coming soon

• Podiatry: coming soon

• Prostate: coming soon

• Remote care anywhere: various remote consultation tools can be used by the NHS

• Renal: The UK Kidney Association partnership allows patients access to their previous and future renal data in PKB

• Sexual Health: reducing clinic appointments and improving patient experience

• Surgical Teams: how to use PKB in both pre and post-operative care

• Virtual Wards: coming soon