Healthy Lives Partnership News
Update on Discharge 2 Assess programme
The Discharge 2 Assess Programme (D2A) is currently supporting a series of pilots aimed at getting patients home, or to an appropriate alternative, for continued care.
Read " Update on Discharge 2 Assess programme…"‘Doing the rounds’ – a typical visit for a Specialist District Nurse
Many of the projects you have read about in this update will utilise a team of Livewell’s Specialist District Nurses to support patients in the community. This video follows Megan Bonner on a visit to a patient’s home.
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Devon’s health providers are working together to help keep ambulance crews on the road, with a new proactive approach to connecting suitable patients to an urgent community response.
Read " Care Coordination shows early promise in…"Virtual Wards going from strength to strength as 1,000th patient enters the service
The Virtual Ward (VW) team are celebrating reaching a significant landmark after the service recorded its 1,000th patient.
Read " Virtual Wards going from strength to str…"A Focus on Falls starts with Prevention
Falls are the number one reason older people are taken to emergency departments in the UK, with 5% of cases causing a fracture and hospitalisation (NHS England). If a person who is frail goes on to fracture a wrist, hip or vertebra, there is a real risk that they may never recover the same level of independence again.
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