Background
An NHS Service, Lambeth Healthcare is a GP Provider Organisation based in Southeast London, dedicated to working together with GP Practices in Lambeth to provide high quality and compassionate patient care at scale.
The organisation had grown an unmanageable collection of spreadsheets that prevented collaborative working and was not user-friendly. The spreadsheets had slow speeds due to their size and presented a significant risk of data loss from potential deletion or corruption.
Project Description
The project began with an assessment of the existing spreadsheets and consultation with the client to fully understand the pain points, but also what they ideally wanted the solution to deliver. This allowed us to create a detailed statement of works clearly explaining the deliverables of the project.
The app was then created and populated with test data to check its functionality and review with the client to ensure they were happy. Once testing had been completed, the app was finalised with data migrated and company branding applied to give a polished end product.
The app successfully provided a vastly improved solution to the previous spreadsheet system. In addition to providing a user-friendly and welcoming interface, the app delivered greatly improved functionality. Whereas previously searches and filters had to be manually applied, the app allowed for a search bar to quickly find records. The search function also allowed the client to quickly produce mailing lists from search results.
The app also gave improved security and better auditability, with an activity log to keep records of notes added by users. The solution ultimately gave the client an easy-to-use and scalable app that offered better functionality and reporting to help drive productivity.
Project Benefits
- A user-friendly and simple interface that made the app easier to use
- The ability to immediately search and filter records with ease
Improved scalability without the hard limits on number of entries (records), as with a spreadsheet - Activity logs to keep records of updates added by staff for quick reference and audit trail purposes
Are you concerned by your dependency on spreadsheets or older applications?
Using applications such as Microsoft Access, Excel or disparate third-party tools to run a growing business leaves you exposed to data integrity issues, inefficiencies and can hold back your growth.
