To cut unnecessary delays, the NHS is launching a digital portal across the UK. This will
help officers find care home places for patients.
This system was developed by the North of England
Commissioning Unit and was funded by NHS England. It has been designed to
address delays in finding care for patients who are ready to be discharged from
the hospital but are not quite well to go home. It offers information about
care homes so that both staff and patients can choose the most appropriate
option and is equipped with a ‘Capacity
Tracker’ that will provide a “shop window” for vacancies. This will allow
health officials to save the time that they would normally spend to check for
availability at the institutions.
The platform can be accessed via several devices. It will be
made available to all hospitals, care homes and councils across the UK after
being tested out. More than 6,250 care homes in Devon, Berkshire and northern
England have already registered to the system. It is expected that a thousand
more will join them. Ruth May, the chief nursing officer for England advanced,
“One of the central ambitions of the NHS Long Term Plan is to better
support people to age well, and that means joining up different services locally
to better meet people’s needs”. As such, this technology will allow the NHS
to work more closely with local authorities and care homes so that treatment is
delivered more efficiently.
NHS
has introduced a digital platform to find home cares for patients
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