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Inspiring, Achieving Success and Keeping it Going. Friday 25 th March 2011 University of Warwick, Coventry Angela Anderson, Service Manager Barbara Skinner Senior Development Manager Public Health. Children’s Outreach Assessment and Support Team (C.O.A.S.T).
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Inspiring, Achieving Success and Keeping it Going Friday 25th March 2011 University of Warwick, Coventry Angela Anderson, Service Manager Barbara Skinner Senior Development Manager Public Health
Children’s Outreach Assessment and Support Team (C.O.A.S.T) • Community Children’s Nursing Service • 2008 – Early Discharge • 2010 – Out of Hours GP • 2010 – June – August GP Pilot • 2010 (September) – All GP practices, Portsmouth City
C.O.A.S.T • Generic Protocols • Clinical Decision Making Tools • Governance • 0.8 WTE Band 7 • 3 WTE Band 5 • Skills and Knowledge
C.O.A.S.T ACTIVITY 2009/10 Activity: new – 529 follow up - 1053 2010/11 YTD Activity: new – 843 follow up – 2,361 Total GP referrals since September 2010 : 130
Potential Cost Savings as result of GP referrals to COAST service
Partnership with Commissioners • Portsmouth City project to reduce paediatric admissions • 76% admissions zero length of stay (of these 52% less than 4 hours) • One aspect of change in 2010/11 • Multi agency, Multi professional Partnership working • Monitoring and plans for 2011/12