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Success Factors for …… Aberdeen CHP. Triage Unit, Ward 15, Woodend 2009-2013 Average 2 Patients per day did not require admission Patients admitted often not seen by Consultant for 48 hours plus Delay in implementing MDT treatment plans resulting in longer length of stay.
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Success Factors for ……Aberdeen CHP Triage Unit, Ward 15, Woodend 2009-2013 Average 2 Patients per day did not require admission Patients admitted often not seen by Consultant for 48 hours plus Delay in implementing MDT treatment plans resulting in longer length of stay. Patients admitted to next available GA bed. No streamlined approach. Slower turnover of patients
Challenges for….. Aberdeen CHP Of these patients -1447 referred by GP - 443 referred by A&E -6 referred by A&E at peripheral hospital - 65 referred by other hospital - 13 referred by wards within Woodend Hospital In total: of the patients who came into Triage:- -1694 were admitted to Elderly Care Wards within Woodend 53 transferred to other hospitals 205 were discharged home 22 passed away Triage Unit opened on 7th of July 2009 In the first year it had 1974 patients referred
The strategic aim of NHSG as part of the Healthfit strategy was that all adult patients, irrespective of age, requiring acute specialist care will be cared for at ARI. This resulted in the need for the specialist consultant geriatric assessment service at Woodend Hospital to be relocated from Woodend to ARI within the Emergency Care Centre ( ECC) and was undertaken in December 2012
Geriatric Assessment Unit (GAU) opened on 7th December 2012 . Of these patients 1935 referred by GP 475 referred by A&E 31 referred by A&E at peripheral hospital 98 referred by other hospital In total: of the patients who came into GAU:- 393 were transferred to Step down acute geriatric/wards in ARI and Intermediate /elderly care wards within Woodend Hospital 49 transferred to other hospitals 1784 were discharged home 313 passed away In the first 7 months Dec 2012 to July 2013 2539 patients were seen
Redesigning the Geriatric consultant outreach service Reviewing the roles of the community elderly care nurses in line with Anticipatory care and preventing admissions Single point of referral for GP’s, Community staff and social work for Intermediate care rehabilitation services Shifting the balance for rehabilitative care out of hospital and into communities Service Redesign