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Emergency Admissions
Acute care in the NHS continues to be under constant pressure from non elective admissions. SHP has recent relevant experience in finding a cost effective solution.
Every day bed managers and clinical staff in acute hospitals are chasing their tails trying to find an appropriate bed for admission against a background of maximum waiting targets and the risks of discharging patients without proper investigation and clinical management.
The solutions to these issues lie within a range of organisational issues not least of which is the estate. Our experience is that many acute hospitals in the UK suffer from:
Lack of facilities to enable efficient streaming of patients into care groups;
Remote Medical assessment and short stay medical beds;
Lack of capacity to hold patients pending more length investigations;
Constraints on local expansion with adjacent imaging departments, fracture clinics and other departments;
Remote specialist imaging resources;
Lack of facilities to see and discharge returning outpatients.
Under these circumstances the long term solution is often the necessity to develop large scale capital solutions, but these are unlikely to be affordable for most Trusts.
Strategic Healthcare Planning has undertaken several recent studies which have met the challenge of creating inpatient and assessment capacity for integrated A and E and medical assessment, minimised ‘collateral damage‘ to adjacent areas, squeezed additional capacity from support accommodation and delivered a cost effective solution to a critically important service area
One such recent project was at Scarborough Hospital. James Hayward, Director of Estate and Facilities has said:
“I am delighted with the review that SHP undertook on our behalf; our A&E is under increasing activity and acuity pressures. We urgently needed an effective and safe solution to redesign the extant departmental layout for optimal safety and patient flow. The innovative and dynamic manner in which the review was undertaken was notable; critical was engagement with clinical staff to determine an outcome which was effective and credible which met the needs of the patient and the service. SHP were responsive and flexible and I have no hesitation in recommending them for assignments of this type in the future.”
Another recent project which was part of a wider strategic estates review was at Mid Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Sarah Hart, Head of capital planning has said:
For further details please contact our main office on 01952 677660 or email: info@shp-uk.com