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Achieving timely simple discharge from hospital: a toolkit for the multi-disciplinary team
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
What happens during the discharge process is a key part of patients’ experiences of hospital care. Whether patients are admitted for elective care or as an emergency, they want to know how long they are likely to stay in hospital. Information about their treatment and when they can expect to be discharged helps them to feel involved in decisions and motivated in achieving goals towards recovery. It also helps them to make plans for their own discharge. In the latest Healthcare Commission National Patient Survey (2004) patients identify delays in the day of discharge home from hospital as a key area where standards can be improved. This toolkit, focuses on the practical steps that health and social care professionals can take to improve discharge. It supports members of the multi-disciplinary team by providing practical advice, factsheets and case studies. The toolkit has been designed and tested with practitioners in the field and is grounded in the reality of day to day practice. At least 80% of patients discharged from hospital can be classified as simple discharges: they are discharged to their own home and have simple ongoing health care needs which can be met without complex planning. Changing the way in which discharge occurs for this large group of patients will have a major impact on patient flow and effective use of the bed capacity. It can mean the difference between a system where patients experience long delays or one where delays are minimal, with patients fully informed about when they will be able to leave hospital.The Department of Health has also launched checklists that will contribute to more effective discharge as part of a total approach to improving bed management and flow of patients into and out of hospital.
Implementing caring for people: community care packages for older people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report presenting the findings of a study on community care packages for older people, forming part of a series monitoring the implementation of community care arrangements.
Transforming primary care: safe, personalised care for those who need it most
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 49
- Place of publication:
- London
This document sets out the actions the Department of Health is taking on their vision for personalised proactive care, focussing on the role of primary care. It covers four key areas, looking at: how services will change; support for staff; how health and care services will support the vision; and how it will be implemented. The paper suggests the changes will be initially focussed on people with the most complex care needs, with GPs developing personalised programmes of care and support tailored to their needs and views. In addition, it outlines plans to improve continuity of care by giving all people aged 75 and over a named GP, who will be responsible for care oversight. The changes will also include a new approach to service quality assurance, greater use of information and technology to ensure easier access to medical records, online appointment booking and prescriptions, steps to further reduce bureaucracy, provision of training for staff to ensure they are able to work across professional boundaries in a more joined up way and support for greater integration between health and care services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Continuing care: NHS and local councils' responsibilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance on continuing care, mainly for older people, but also including all adults aged over eighteen requiring continuing NHS care as a result of illness or accidents. Continuing or long term care describes the care that people need over an extended period of time, as a result of disability, accident or illness to address both physical and mental health needs and may include both health and social services.
NHS responsibilities for meeting continuing health care
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Scottish Office
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Circular refining current guidance on the responsibilities for the NHS in the organisation of continuing health care including revised provisions, which have immediate effect, on eligibility criteria for continuing inpatient health care.
NHS responsibilities for meeting continuing health care needs: current progress and future priorities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
CI letter attached to a report on the emerging issues from work undertaken by the NHS Executive and the SSI on preparations for the implementation of the guidance on NHS responsibilities for meeting continuing health care needs. While recognising that work is still ongoing it identifies the current state of progress and priorities for future work by health and local authorities. Includes a section on eligibility criteria.
Discharge from NHS inpatient care of people with continuing health or social care needs: arrangements for reviewing decisions on eligibility for NHS continuing inpatient care
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Follow up to circular LAC(95)5/HSG(95)8 'NHS responsibilities for meeting continuing health care needs'. Presents guidance on the arrangements to be put in place for reviewing decisions on eligibility for NHS continuing inpatient care.
NHS responsibilities for meeting continuing health care needs
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance setting out a national framework of conditions which all health authorities must meeting in drawing up local policies and eligibility criteria for continuing health care and in deciding the appropriate balance of services required to meet local needs. The guidance also stresses that the NHS has a clear responsibility to arrange and fund services to meet the needs of people who require continuing health care.
Social services: achievement and challenge; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, March 1997
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Government White Paper on the future of social services.