Greater Manchester Integrated Care

“the Greater Manchester NHS Foundation Trust agrees that, although it can take time to complete all the necessary arrangements for a safe and appropriate transfer of care for someone with complex needs, the time from a decision that Mr [name redacted] was medically optimised (18 December 2023) to his actual transfer to Hilltop Hall Nursing Home (11 January 2024) was too long.”

“We acknowledge that these factors unfortunately impacted the ability to discharge Mr [name redacted] in a timely manner to an appropriate community placement.”

“The Integrated Urgent Care Team is Tameside's urgent response team; they provide rapid assessments for people in the community, with an aim to keeping people in their own homes and preventing hospital admission.”

“Tameside locality partners meet weekly in an Executive Length Of Stay meeting to consider any barriers to discharging patients with”

“1. Home Finders Team (as described above) that are focussed specifically on supporting timely and appropriate placements for patients ready for discharge.”

“Tameside Digital Health Team (based at Tameside ICFT) provide a face to face digital service directly with Residential and Nursing Homes to support residents to remain in the Care Sector with support wherever possible.”

“The Integrated Urgent Care Team is Tameside's urgent response team; they provide rapid assessments for people in the community, with an aim to keeping people in their own homes and preventing hospital admission.”

“we have connected with Trafford Local Authority”

“We are looking at how we can bring the benefits of this type of technology to other services.”

“Learning to be presented/shared with the Greater Manchester System Quality Group on 21st September 2023.”