Improving patient care and reducing clinician workload by getting concise and clinically relevant information about medical specialty referrals into clinicians’ pockets

 
 
 
 

Buku Medicine is a free medical education platform which delivers concise and clinically relevant information to potentially referrers about the most common queries to medical specialists. Use of the content leads to significant improvements in the completeness of referrals and can prevent some unnecessary referrals altogether. This reduces improves patient care and reduces clinician workload, all whilst reducing costs for the wider health service.

Buku Medicine has over 46,000 users in the UK and internationally, with most of that uptake through word of mouth recommendations

“Invaluable to my clinical practice”

“The clarity and relevance of the information is unrivaled”

Buku Medicine includes haematology, renal, rheumatology, hepatology, immunology, endocrinology, neurology and palliative care.

Buku Medicine is created and curated by volunteer clinicians giving up their time to help create a great resource for clinicians and to improve patient care.

 
 
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We are incredibly grateful to have the endorsement of the British Society for Haematology for our haematology content, acknowledging how impactful and supportive Buku Medicine is for both haematologists and referrers

(The BSH but does not endorse specific content nor provide any input or guidance regarding content within Buku Medicine.)

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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation trust is working with Buku Medicine to deploy the platform within the trust and wider region

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Buku Medicine is installed on clinician devices at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation trust

 

Charity collaboration

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Further testimonials

 

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Your app is one of my favourites, I really think it is so excellent. I like how you have structured the topics, the chosen labels, and amount of info in each section. So thank you very much to everyone involved in the creation and maintenance. I really appreciate that this app is free, easy to use, and how it has consequently improved my practice and patient care.

It’s brilliant, I use it a lot and helps guide my investigation and know when to refer/worry etc. Thank you!

Dear Buku Haematology. Thank you very much for your app, I have found it very useful whilst working as a Band 5 Biomedical Scientist. Keep up the good work! All the best.

I am a consultant haematologist in the South of England. this app is fantastic and I will be promoting it’s use locally.

This is a brilliant app.

Excellent resource - accessible with lots or relevant information, gets to the point.

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