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Delayed transfers of care follow-through
- Author:
- WALES AUDIT OFFICE
- Publisher:
- Wales Audit Office
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This follow up review aimed to investigate whether early progress in tackling the causes of delayed transfers of care found in the 'Independent Review of Delayed Transfers of Care' were likely to be sustained. In the review a range of methods were used including a document review; a brief survey of selected NHS trusts, LHBs and local authorities, a data analysis of performance indicators and structured interviews with key stakeholders. The findings are discussed in two main sections which provide evidence of improvement and also highlight longer-term system barriers that still exist. It is concluded that there has been some positive progress which will only lead to sustainable improvement if partners seize longer-term opportunities to design the whole system in a way that more effectively promotes independence.
Tackling delayed transfers of care across the whole system: overview report based on work in the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan, Gwent and Carmarthenshire health and social care communities
- Author:
- WALES AUDIT OFFICE
- Publisher:
- Wales Audit Office
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Tackling Delayed Transfers of Care Across the Whole System, makes a number of recommendations, including a clear local vision of service models to promote the independence of vulnerable older people and the strengthening of processes so that provision is centred on people's needs for care. The report also says that commissioning is under-developed and needs to ensure that health and social care communities have the appropriate capacity in a wide range of services that promote independence. The Committee found that the number of people experiencing a delayed transfer of care, has fallen over time but is not a good measure on its own of the extent of the problem because it does not reflect the length of the delays they suffer. A better measure is the number of hospital bed days occupied by people experiencing a delay, and that number in Wales as a whole actually rose by 2 per cent between 2005-06 and 2006-07 from 262,595 to 268,491. The report recommends that the Assembly Government should align its guidance, budgets, priorities, performance measures and incentives more closely with its vision of the whole system, in particular by improving the current measurement systems which are inaccurate and understate the impact of delayed transfers of care.