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| Evaluation of an in-patient multidisciplinary unit at Leek Moorlands Cottage Hospital for admissions of older people directly from the community | | Author(s) | Dawn Moody, Barnabas Panayiotou |
| Journal title | Ageing & Health: the Journal of the Institute of Ageing and Health (West Midlands), no 18, 2012 |
| Publisher | Institute of Ageing and Health, West Midlands, 2012 |
| Pages | pp 17-20 |
| Source | www.iah-wmids.org.uk |
| Keywords | In-patients ; Admission [hospitals] ; Community hospital ; Multi disciplinary ; Evaluation ; Staffordshire Moorlands. |
| Annotation | The authors describe the inception, implementation and expansion of an Early Assessment Service for direct admission of patients from the community to Leek Moorlands Cottage Hospital, aiming to reduce admissions to the acute hospital in Stoke-on-Trent. Formal evaluations demonstrated the service to be safe and to have favourable outcomes. It avoiding the high tariffs of acute hospital admission, it was found to be cost-effective. Importantly, it proved very popular with patients, their families and GPs. Elements underlying the success of the service included an emphasis on staff education to cope with new demands, attention to care quality, and good mutual understanding between primary care staff and the Unit. The development of new service was made possible by redeploying more productively existing manpower and resources, rather than hoping for extra funding. There are thus advantages to having Units in cottage hospitals that are able to quickly admit, assess and manage direct admission of patients from their local community. In future, their role will probably widen further in the pressure of acute hospital continues to escalate. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121208202 |
| Classmark | LF7: LD:QKH: LD:PA: 3DM: 4C: 8STK |
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