About the event
Drawing on findings from reports by The King’s Fund, Healthwatch England, the National Audit Office, the Care Quality Commission and the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PHSO), this event explored new ways of ensuring older people experience a safe, appropriate and timely discharge that is right for them and their health needs.
Presentations
Session one: Opening plenary
Ashley McDougall, Director, Local Government, Health and Education, National Audit Office
Discharging older patients from hospital
Grainne Siggins, Director of Adult Social Care, London Borough of Newham, and Policy Lead, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
The role of local authorities in improving transfers of care
Dr Olivier Gaillemin, Member, Guideline Development Group, NICE, and Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Meeting the new NICE guidelines
Neil Tester, Director of Policy and Communications, Healthwatch England
Safely Home - special inquiry findings
Rosalind Pearce, Executive Director, Healthwatch Oxfordshire
Safely Home - what happens when people leave hospital and care settings?
Karin Bishop, Assistant Director for Professional Practice, The College of Occupational Therapists
Using occupational therapists
Dr Naomi Fox, Consultant Geriatrician, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Addressing the challenge of discharge and patient flow
Louise Kellichan, Integrated Assessment Team Lead, NHS Fife
A person-centred approach to frailty at the front door
Lloyd Barker, Head of Adult Services, Sussex Community NHS Trust and Grace Hanley, General Manager, Brighton and Hove City Council
Front through to back door model
Brian Turnbull, Interim Service Manager Community and Hospital Integrated Services, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Fiona Davies, Clinical and Project Lead, Bart’s Health NHS Trust
Discharge to access in Tower Hamlets
Lisa Riley, Associate Improvement Manager, Emergency Care Improvement Programme, NHS Improvement
The Home First approach in Medway
Viccie Nelson, Programme Director, NHS Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group
Hospital transfer pathway: the 'red bag' initiative
Mark Walker, Service Lead, Unplanned Care, Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCH&C)
Providing care in people's own homes
Claire Holditch, Project Director, National Audit of Intermediate Care and Director, NHS Benchmarking Network
Intermediate care
Dr John Dean, Deputy Medical Director (Transformation) East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Delivering better quality and more effective services for frail and elderly patients
Amy Newman and Katie Kew, Early Intervention Team, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Working in the community to provide a 'one stop shop' to help people retain their independence and avoid hospital admission
Tom Brown, Deputy Director, Adult Social Care, London Borough of Bexley and Sarah Valentine, Director of Commissioning, NHS Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group
Pulling together a risk share/benefit share arrangement to support more people going home faster
Sue Wing, Deputy District Director, Barnsley Business Delivery Unit, Operational Directorate, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Ensuring patients are receiving the right care in the right setting for them to improve the overall patient journey
Nicole Woodyatt, Interim End of Life Care Programme Lead, MacMillan Cancer Support and Dr Joanne Bowen, Palliative Medicine Consultant, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
Supporting the discharge of end-of-life care patients from hospital
Liz Sargeant OBE, Clinical Lead for Integration, Emergency Care Improvement Programme, NHS Improvement
Lessons from ECIP to inform local sustainability and transformation plans
Victoria Bennett, Lead, Out-of-Hospital Urgent Care Programme, NHS England
A national response to the need for system transformation to improve transfers of care