Back in November then RPH started to discharge patients to the care home in Deepdale as a temporary measure. It appears to be working. 🛏️ LancsHospitals
While the top floor of the three-storey building remains reserved for pre-existing, fee-paying residents, the other 64 beds are available for use by patients who are medically fit to leave hospital, but whose discharge has been delayed.
“We wrap a team around [the patients in Finney House] of social workers, our discharge team and the community teams to really make sure we get patients out into the right placement [in] an appropriate setting. It is hoped that the arrangement will also help to make permanent improvements to the flow of patients through hospital – from their arrival at the ‘front door’, via Accident and Emergency, to the ‘back door’ and the point at which they are discharged from the wards if they have ended up being admitted.
However, papers from the trust’s board meeting last month also noted that patients waiting over 12 hours on trolleys in A&E increased slightly in February to 134, while the overall bed occupancy levels in the hospital remained “high” at 94.3 percent – an improvement on the 95.8 percent figure for January, but still some way short of the 85 percent level commonly regarded as the ideal maximum proportion of a hospital’s beds that should be filled at any one time.
“We really want to…work with NWAS so they don’t potentially have to convey frailty patients [to hospital] – the paramedic on the scene could talk to a medic [in the control room]…and [conclude that the person is] okay and they don’t need to come into hospital – but we [might] send out [someone from the] community team, just to check and wrap some [additional support] around them,” Ms Button explained.
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