NHS Budget Cuts- How we can help

Budget cuts are an issue that we can help with

The transcription of letters and patient notes is a significant budgetary issue for all Trusts. It is an essential service (you have no choice but to generate a letter or note for each clinical interaction) but one that is responsible for a significant part of the departmental budget.

The departmental medical secretaries are often working at full capacity and it is rarely possible to reduce headcount and achieve targeted turnaround times for clinical correspondence: indeed most Trusts have to use expensive temporary staff in order to hit those targets.

However, using DICT8’s UK-based medical transcription service can help to solve these issues. Outsourcing some or all of your typing means you no longer need to size your in-house team for peak demand, and it reduces your reliance on expensive bank and temporary staff.

Customers typically save around 60% on the cost of medical transcription, as well as transforming fixed costs into variable ones.

There are no set-up costs, monthly minimums or standing fees – you only pay for the transcription that you put through, and your clinicians can dictate using our free app, so there is no need to buy dictation equipment. You can put through as little or as much work as you require – you keep control.