Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
News about the unsustainable pressures facing A&E departments has been hard to avoid. Visits to A&E in 2014 were up 446,049 on 2013. And NHS England figures show that up to 1m emergency admissions are avoidable and up to 50% of 999 calls could be managed at the scene.
The depth of this crisis is clear but it’s time to find alternative solutions. To reduce NHS pressures we need to prevent people getting so ill. Part of this is about preventing hospital admissions and readmissions by making homes safer (to prevent falls) and warmer (to avoid cold-related illnesses worsening). It’s also about enabling quicker, safer hospital discharge for patients who are well enough to go home but can’t.
http://www.theguardian.com/social-c...crisis-social-care-prevent-hospital-admission
The depth of this crisis is clear but it’s time to find alternative solutions. To reduce NHS pressures we need to prevent people getting so ill. Part of this is about preventing hospital admissions and readmissions by making homes safer (to prevent falls) and warmer (to avoid cold-related illnesses worsening). It’s also about enabling quicker, safer hospital discharge for patients who are well enough to go home but can’t.
http://www.theguardian.com/social-c...crisis-social-care-prevent-hospital-admission