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iPLATO provides the fastest growing mobile patient facing service in the UK to 1,400 GP surgeries and 12m patients . The smartphone app - myGP(tm) - allows patients to book and cancel appointments. But, as the pressure on GPs increases, patients find appointments harder to find. This leads to frustration and increases the risk of patients by-passing primary care to attend expensive and often inappropriate urgent care. Our project aims to introduce a smart Virtual Waiting room 'Saibot' which will ask patients questions to inform the GP consultation or direct them to alternative care - e.g. pharmacy or self-referred clinics - better, faster, cheaper.

In partnership with Southeast London Cancer Alliance, iPLATO are aiming to increase early detection of Bowel Cancer, with a particular focus on engaging with ethnic minority communities. Using a multi-layered digital approach, cohorts such as those with protected characteristics, or social exclusion will be invited digitally with supporting educational content.

Current treatment of venous ulceration in the UK costs the NHS approximately £300-400m per year. We intend to show that using our 3D technology primary care could save in excess of £100m per year - this is in both dressing cost and nurse time. In this project we will demonstrate that our technology is transportable, reliable, quick and easy to use. We will use 3D technology to also measure ulcer volume and accurately monitor the rate of healing. The goal is to prove our financial modelling in practice and that our compression hosiery is at least equivalent to 4/2 Layered Bandaging.