Digital-first home healthcare provider Cera today announces that it has surpassed its January targets by a staggering 50%, delivering more than 1.5 million at-home appointments in January to save the government up to £31m. The news comes after Cera announced its ambitious commitment to undertake 1 million at-home appointments throughout last month, in its efforts to alleviate pressures on NHS hospitals and help to reduce record waiting times.
In the last week of January, Cera made over half a million (530K) appointments to patients’ homes.
Saving the government up to £1 million per day, given Cera’s scale – covering a population of over 20 million people – across the month, Cera has saved the government and NHS up to £31 million in hospitalisation fees and care home costs thanks to its award-winning technology, including its predictive analytics platform that reduces hospitalisations by an unprecedented 52%.
This milestone highlights the deep demand for more businesses to provide innovative solutions to widespread social issues.
Cera delivers services equivalent in capacity to 50 NHS hospitals per day, working with over a hundred Local Governments and 75% of NHS Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), with the scale to make a real impact in reducing pressures across the health service.
Dr Ben Maruthappu MBE, CEO and Co-founder of Cera, comments: “We are delighted that Cera has over-delivered on our ambitious January commitments by 50%, to provide excellent care to even more people, support the NHS during such a critical time, and save the government millions of pounds. Our health service is more stretched than ever, suffering record wait times in A&E, and so moving healthcare services from hospital to home is imperative. When home care is paired with a technology-powered model, caring for people in their own home is around ten-fold cheaper than a patient receiving care in hospital. This is the future of healthcare and Cera will be expanding its footprint to impact and improve health outcomes for as many people as possible in the coming months.”
