Clinical Photography: 

March 2025

We are continuing to maintain a steady workflow across both site meaning KPIs are improving and processing on both sites are being kept on top of. 

We’re also making great progress in processing the backlog of podiatry and theatre images from the watched folders. Now, we can add them to the workflow, so they’ll be worked on in our normal daily workflow. 

First round of 1:1s with Debbie and Tom have taken place with the second round with Debbie starting to get underway. I feel these have been a huge success and has helped us all to see where you are with your own professional developments and identified training you would like to undertake to development your CPDs. We have seen new projects starting and photographers using their knowledge and skills to do projects they would like to get involved with such as Bereavement, Annual Report, Dermoscopy and many IMI submission interests.

On March 11th, we had our first photography team meeting since Ali and Ellie joined. It was great to get together in person and discuss things as a team. We’ll meet every three months to keep things moving forward. If you have any ideas for the next meeting, please send them to Debbie by the end of May. 

Finally, congratulations to Amanda who is now a fully qualified Clinical Photographer.

Teledermatology 

It’s been a productive month for Teledermatology, with steady figures for our SaTH clinics, and the initial phase of testing set to begin with Cinapsis, the platform our Wolverhampton and Walsall clinics will be based upon.

On Tuesday 4th of March, Ian, James, Matt L and Alastair attended am informal training discussion with SaTH dermatology consultant Dr. Jain Dimple, the aim of which was to run through and assess any complications or uncertainties encountered during the clinics. It was a certainly a useful meeting to attend, helping to address common issues found running the Teledermatology clinics, and we’ll probably look to make this a more regular informal catch up in the future

As mentioned, we have also made progress with Cinapsis, and a concrete workflow has been established for incorporating Clinical Photography into the Teledermatology process, with all patients from across both catchments being referred for photography via the Cinapsis platform. The initial testing of the Cinapsis platform happened on 13th March. We are now in a position to begin building the program into our existing Filemaker/Fotostation workflows

Once this is all in place, and the details ironed out, we will eventually begin training all photography staff members on the Teledermatology clinic platforms and processes. This is to not only help provide cover for the clinics at SaTh and RWT/WHC, but also to broaden everyone’s clinical experience, with the aim of providing a gold standard Teledermatology service to our patients and clinicians.