The 14th December 2011 saw Singleton Hospital in Swansea go-live with Cellma to manage all osteoporosis patients.

The Nuclear Medicine Department, based at Singleton, provide osteoporosis patients with DXA scans in order to aid diagnosis and monitor on-going care. This includes the use of a mobile DXA unit which regularly visits other hospitals, thereby serving a vast population.

Cellma is a comprehensive health information system designed for use at the point of contact, delivering full clinical and managerial functionality. The benefits Singleton Hospital Osteoporosis service will realise include;

• Identification of potentially high risk patients with peripheral and vertebral fractures from the Fracture Clinic and X-ray databases
• Clinical best practice based assessments which determine the osteoporosis, fracture and fall risk and subsequent treatment plan
• Management of all referrals, DXA requests and recalls
• Facilitates the meeting of NICE guidelines such as TA160
• Automatically generated GP letters and patient summaries, sent within 24 hours ensuring compliance with NICE guidelines
• Reports meeting all KPI are generated in under 60 seconds
• Improved patient recall through ensuring follow ups and texting patient appointment reminders, also reducing DNAs
• The entire multidisciplinary team gain real time access to patient records at any NHS location 24/7/365
• Tracking of patients progress throughout the service

These are just a few of the benefits to osteoporosis services such as Singleton. To hear more, or to find out how your service can realise such benefits please do not hesitate to contact us on 02380 277044 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it