Mike Ogonovsky

• Managing Director at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Background The use of technology in health care, including nursing, is growing, owing in part to the COVID-19 pandemic and in response to national policy. Aims To investigate nurses' perceptions of digital nursing (DN). Methods Community and primary care nurses from across Wales were recruited (n=249) through a survey comprising open and closed q...

The development of the new health screening service for Ukraine Refugees put in place by Powys Teaching Health Board in 2022 has seen extensive use from Ukrainian families in need of extra support from the National Health Service (NHS) and signposting to specific NHS departments. To discuss the experiences of the staff from Powys regarding their ro...

Introduction: Digital healthcare in the UK was adopted out of necessity rather than choice during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as we move forward, UK governments and healthcare services have acknowledged its evident benefits for patients, staff and the National Health Service (NHS), and are keen to sustain its improvements in the long term. Obj...

Objectives Allied Health Professionals (AHP) consist of 13 different specialty roles in Wales, sharing the responsibility of promoting and supporting the health and well-being of the population. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a shift in care provision, with the increased use of online consultations, such as those using video consultation p...

CO-AUTHORS: Gemma Johns, Megan Whistance, Sara Khalil, Mike Ogonovsky, Alka Ahuja

Introduction: The use of video consulting (VC) in Wales UK has expanded rapidly. Previous VC evidence has been the subject of small-scale projects and evaluations. Technology Enabled Care Cymru is an all-Wales digital service and rolls out digital interventions and evaluates on large scales, thus capturing representative data sets across Wales, an...

Background: The use of video consulting (VC) in Wales, United Kingdom (UK) has expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditionally, VC has been the subject of small-scale projects and evaluations. In response to the pandemic emergency, there was an opportunity to roll out and evaluate VC on a larger and more representative scale, across a...

Introduction The use of video consulting (VC) in Wales UK has expanded rapidly. Previous VC evidence has been the subject of small-scale projects and evaluations. Technology Enabled Care Cymru is an all-Wales digital service and rolls out digital interventions and evaluates on large scales, thus capturing representative data sets across Wales, and...

This Research and Service Evaluation Framework is developed by Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Cymru’s research and evaluation team and is based upon the team’s own knowledge and experiences. The framework has six sections: Section 1: What is Research & Service Evaluation? Section 2: What is Quality Improvement? Section 3: TEC Cymru’s Four-Step...

To understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific evidence alone isn’t the only reliable source to inform public and policy. In Wales, a country where the pandemic has hit hard, the experience has been a time unlike no other for our younger population and an opportunity for them to voice their opinions on a subject that concerns t...

The use of video consulting (VC) in the UK has expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Cymru, the Welsh Government and Local Health boards began implementing the National Health Service (NHS) Wales VC Service in March 2020. This has been robustly evaluated on a large-scale All-Wales basis, across a wide range of...

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, care home residents and staff were identified as being at risk of infection. Their safety was important, but equally important was safe delivery of healthcare to those who needed it. The Welsh Government provided care homes with video consulting (VC) to deliver safe healthcare to the vulnerable, combat iso...

Social distancing laws during the first year of the pandemic, and its unprecedented changes to the National Health Service (NHS) forced a large majority of services, especially mental health teams to deliver patient care remotely. For many, this approach was adopted out of necessity, rather than choice, thus presenting a true ‘testing ground’ for r...

Aims In March 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak emerged, Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Cymru went into partnership with the Welsh Government and CWTCH Cymru to offer a safe solution to protect the NHS and the public by developing and rolling-out a National Video Consulting (VC) Service on an All-Wales basis. The aim was to quickly develop and roll-o...

The covid-19 outbreak has been a source of undeniable hardship for many healthcare systems globally, including the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). For clinicians, maintaining the safety of vulnerable patients became a more complex endeavor due to the added risk of virus transmission. Thus, the government adopted strict social distancing and shi...

p> Using data from a larger study, a theme on ‘homeworking’ emerged. Data from 437 semi-structured interviews with NHS professionals across a wide range of specialities identified a dominant theme of ‘homeworking’. Using this themed data, a short preliminary article has been produced with an infographic guide that is developed as a generic guide, n...

p> Using data from a larger study, a theme on ‘homeworking’ emerged. Data from 437 semi-structured interviews with NHS professionals across a wide range of specialities identified a dominant theme of ‘homeworking’. Using this themed data, a short preliminary article has been produced with an infographic guide that is developed as a generic guide, n...

Despite the increasingly widespread use of video consultations, there are very few documented descriptions of how to set up and implement video consultations in real-time practice. This step-by-step guide will describe the set-up process based on the authors’ experience of two real-time National Health Service (NHS) examples: a single health board...

Despite the increasingly widespread use of video consultations, there are very few documented descriptions of how to set up and implement video consultations in real-time practice. This step-by-step guide will describe the set-up process based on the authors’ experience of two real-time National Health Service (NHS) examples: a single health board...