ADDAS, NHS England, LGA, DH 1 December 2015
- This model provides practical options to support local health and care systems particularly around patient flow and discharge and to assess how effectively current systems are working. It also encourages areas to consider new interventions to be introduced throughout the year.
- The tool identifies eight high impact changes:
- early discharge planning
- systems to monitor patient flow
- multi-disciplinary/multi-agency discharge teams, including the voluntary and community sector
- home first/discharge to assess
- seven-day services
- trusted assessors
- focus on choice
- enhancing health in care homes
