Campbeltown Hospital Project Group
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:05 pmCampbeltown Hospital Project Group
Members of the Campbeltown Better Health Better Care Better Value Project Group met on 31st October to review the changes to inpatient services that have taken place in the hospital over last year. These changes include:
• A single integrated ward nursing team
• The expansion in community services and the co-location of community nurses and the integrated care team
• Implementing ‘anticipatory care’ through monitoring those patients most at risk of admission and preventing their condition getting worse
• Arrangements to speed up patient admission, review and discharges in order to reduce delayed discharges
• The impact and use of the Council’s overnight service to prevent admission
• The revised inpatient bed complement of 32 beds
• Reductions in the length of time patients remain in hospital
• National targets to reduce accident and emergency attendances and admissions to hospital for people over 65
There was also a general discussion regarding the impact that these changes have had against the expectation that there should be fewer admissions to hospital, a reduced length of stay for patients and more people being treated in the community and supported to remain at home by health and social care services. A review of all the relevant information highlighted however that there had been little change in the number of inpatients over the past year and members of the Project Group were of the opinion that the recent changes have not been sufficiently established to achieve the desired outcomes.
The Project Group also recognised that whilst services are becoming increasingly community based, with hospital beds preserved for the most acutely ill and those with specialist needs, this shift to community services did not at this time support a further reduction in the number of beds at the hospital.
The Project Group therefore agreed that a further review of the service provision in health and social care was required in six months by which time the changes already highlighted may have had a chance to achieve the required aim.
Membership of the Project Group includes staff, community councillors, members of the public and local councillors.
Further information
Contact:Niki Mulroy
Role:
Telephone:01436 655047
Members of the Campbeltown Better Health Better Care Better Value Project Group met on 31st October to review the changes to inpatient services that have taken place in the hospital over last year. These changes include:
• A single integrated ward nursing team
• The expansion in community services and the co-location of community nurses and the integrated care team
• Implementing ‘anticipatory care’ through monitoring those patients most at risk of admission and preventing their condition getting worse
• Arrangements to speed up patient admission, review and discharges in order to reduce delayed discharges
• The impact and use of the Council’s overnight service to prevent admission
• The revised inpatient bed complement of 32 beds
• Reductions in the length of time patients remain in hospital
• National targets to reduce accident and emergency attendances and admissions to hospital for people over 65
There was also a general discussion regarding the impact that these changes have had against the expectation that there should be fewer admissions to hospital, a reduced length of stay for patients and more people being treated in the community and supported to remain at home by health and social care services. A review of all the relevant information highlighted however that there had been little change in the number of inpatients over the past year and members of the Project Group were of the opinion that the recent changes have not been sufficiently established to achieve the desired outcomes.
The Project Group also recognised that whilst services are becoming increasingly community based, with hospital beds preserved for the most acutely ill and those with specialist needs, this shift to community services did not at this time support a further reduction in the number of beds at the hospital.
The Project Group therefore agreed that a further review of the service provision in health and social care was required in six months by which time the changes already highlighted may have had a chance to achieve the required aim.
Membership of the Project Group includes staff, community councillors, members of the public and local councillors.
Further information
Contact:Niki Mulroy
Role:
Telephone:01436 655047