Patient Flow
Bed blocking, delayed discharges and cancelled operations place a huge cost on the global health economy, worse still the psychological impact suffered by patients facing delayed care can be devastating.
Discharge systems are complex, but all too often, delays are down to poor collaboration between services, equipment shortages, disparate IT systems, poor visibility of patient records and ineffective commissioning between clinical and social care providers.
Patients that do present to Hospitals need to be treated effectively and discharged quickly, to do this community and social care services need to improve.
We bring together clinicians, nurses, clinical pharmacists, social care providers and local commissioners and together identify those patient pathway’s causing the highest delays in Hospital discharges.
It is estimated that 1 in every 10 beds in the UK is occupied by a patient medically fit to be discharged costing the NHS around £900m each year, impacting your Hospitals capacity to carry out elective services, contact us today to discuss how we can help you improve patient flow in your Hospital.
Key areas of support include:
- Treatment pathway planning
- Reducing length of stay
- Provision of more services out of Hospital
- Increasing elective services
- Procurement reviews
- Improved medication dispensing
- Equipment and consumables planning
- Improved patient transport and medication discharge
- Collaborative commissioning across clinical and social care services