The app could “revolutionise” how clinical staff communicate and free up valuable time, say the junior doctors behind the idea
The platform, Forward, will free doctors from relying on an ‘outdated’ system of pagers and landlines, instead offering a way to keep up with clinical teams’ complex communication needs, they say.
Junior doctors Lydia Yarlott and Barney Gilbert came up with the idea along with mobile tech entrepreneur Philip Mundy. Forward allows clinical staff to easily contact each other, prioritise tasks and securely share patient information. They have since been joined by a team of five junior doctors and all are now working to scale the platform.
“When I started working in hospitals, I was struck by how…
