Patient-initiated follow-up: does it work, why it matters, and can it help the NHS recover?

Patient-initiated follow-up: does it work, why it matters, and can it help the NHS recover? The NHS’s elective recovery strategy includes a target of moving 5% of outpatient attendances to patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) pathways by March next year. But what exactly is PIFU? As the NHS prepares to scale it up nationally, Sarah Reed and Nadia Crellin explain more about what it is, the problems it could solve, and what is known so far about how well it works. Nuffield Trust

See also:

• Patient-initiated follow-up: will it free up capacity in outpatient care? (report) Nuffield Trust