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Transformation Directorate

100 day discharge challenge

Making a significant difference in facilitating discharge and improving care for patients

Welcome

The national health and social care discharge taskforce brings together partners from across health and social care to focus on opportunities to improve discharge. In particular, it aims to improve the outcomes for patients who no longer meet the ‘criteria to reside’ so they can be discharged from hospital, cared for in more appropriate settings, and to release much-needed capacity within acute providers.

Aims

The goal, vision and commitment of the national health and social care discharge taskforce

Ten best practice initiatives

Initiatives that demonstrably improve flow and improve discharge

Hospital Only Discharge Programme

The national discharge taskforce has four workstreams. Workstream 1 is focussing on hospital only discharge, for patients who don’t require further additional support after leaving hospital
Contact the Emergency Care Improvement Support Team (ECIST)

Emergency Care Improvement Support Team

The clinically led Emergency Care Improvement Support Team (ECIST) assists systems, teams and individuals to improve flow across the urgent and emergency care system

Email: england.eeci@nhs.net

Wellington House
133-155 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8UG