LifeBox

Complete digital pre-operative assessment platform that enables personalised patient care, supports hospital decision-making, and unlocks additional capacity for healthcare teams.

Digital pre-operative assessment

With the elective surgery backlog continuing to impact healthcare systems, LifeBox helps hospitals increase capacity, reduce costs, and maintain high levels of patient and clinician satisfaction.  

LifeBox transforms pre-operative assessment by providing a secure, online platform where patients and clinical teams can share, review, and manage information efficiently and safely. By identifying patient needs earlier and supporting clinical decision-making, LifeBox helps hospitals reduce cancellations, maximise operating efficiency, and deliver safer, more personalised care. LifeBox also improves how patients prepare for surgery by delivering tailored education materials, personalised guidance, and clear pre-operative instructions, helping patients feel informed, confident, and ready for their procedure.  

Designed to support digital-first care strategies and elective recovery goals, LifeBox empowers teams to unlock capacity, free up clinical resources, and enhance the patient experience. 

Patient benefits

  • The patient provides information to the hospital from the comfort and safety of their home
  • Reduction in multiple hospital appointments and associated travel
  • Unique educational videos mean the patient is fully informed and put at ease about their upcoming hospital visit and procedure
  • With secure file sharing, admissions and procedure information can be accessed in one place at any time
  • Patient needs identified early resulting in personalised and relevant care

Hospital benefits

  • Digital information provided by the patient throughout the digital pre-operative assessment process is available in one place
  • Concerns can be identified before hospital admission optimising patient safety and reducing cancellations
  • Standardise clinical assessment based on regulatory guidelines
  • Remote working facilitated
  • Uplifted procedure and comorbidity coding
  • Pathways can be streamlined and centralised increasing efficiency and reducing unnecessary cost

“LifeBox offered training for individuals and small groups of staff and we did a lot of hospital internal communications about it. We encouraged ward nurses to be involved in the pre-assessment so that when they went back on the wards they used their knowledge to help other nursing staff and knew the challenges that the pre-assessment nurses faced – it wasn’t just about one department using it.”

OUTPATIENT'S SERVICES MANAGER, HSJ & SE, LONDON Claire Manley

“Our launch and use of LifeBox digital health technology has digitised our entire patient pre-operative assessment service, making it more efficient, eliminating the need for unnecessary hospital visits, and significantly reducing risks for patients undergoing surgery. It has proved an invaluable tool during the COVID crisis, supporting the safe triage process of NHS patients needing clinically-urgent surgery at our hospital which has become a ‘hub’ for the region.”

HOSPITAL DIRECTOR, THE MONTEFIORE HOSPITAL David Eglington

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