Initiative 1

Identify patients needing complex discharge support early

Guidance

Rapid improvement guides

• Criteria-led discharge

Resources

• Criteria to admit audit tool (.ods, 160kb)
• Criteria to admit flow chart (.odt, 782kb)

External resources

NHS England is not responsible for the content of external platforms.

• Listening to what matters (British Red Cross)
• What matters to you? (Healthcare Improvement Scotland)
• Hospital discharge and community support guidance (gov.uk)
• Hospital discharge and community support: staff action cards (gov.uk)

Video

Youtube

• Discharge to assess webinar series (October 2020)
  • 1. Policy, model and pathways
  • 2. Personalisation
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Joint commissioning
  • 5. Workforce
  • 6. Funding and finance
  • 7. Providers
• Optimising timely discharge webinar series
• Optimising timely discharge webinar series - ECIST Network
• Hospital Discharge & Recovery Programme and Reducing Long Length of Stay & Hospital Flow

FutureNHS collaboration platform (registration required)

• ECIST Network
• Accelerated Discharge
• Community rehabilitation
• Transfer of care good practice guide