To use a technological platform to efficiently transfer patients through the healthcare system placing them in the appropriate care freeing up beds, services and staff. This will allow more patients to be seen and patients who urgently need care to receive a higher level of care as quickly as possible.

This is important because delayed transfer of care is a sharply rising issue which is affecting the NHS.

Delayed transfer of care, also known as bed blocking, is where patients are in inappropriate or unnecessary care and cannot be transferred, which can be for a variety of reasons. Commonly, patients in hospitals who need to be discharged can't be due to not being able to find the correct environment to be transferred to.

One of the reasons for this is that hospitals often have outdated information about what care homes are qualified to handle and how much space is within them. Using a technological platform to handle and update this data will free up staff to take care of more important tasks such as tending to patients.

Delayed transfer of care can cost people their lives or even treatment for urgent cases, with some hospitals even having to delay cancer surgeries and other treatments (BBC Hospital, series 3 episode 5).

Not only is this issue affecting patients, but it's costing the NHS a serious amount of money. Age UK has estimated it to cost around £550 every minute. With an NHS which is already underfunded, there's no need to carry on piling the debt when the solution could be more simple than you think.