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Initiative 2
Ensure multi-disciplinary engagement in early discharge plan
Guidance
Rapid improvement guides
- Earlier daily discharge times
- Multi-agency Discharge Event (MaDE)
- Community Multi-Agency Discharge Event (MaDE) to support system flow
- Criteria-led discharge
External resources
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- Discharge to assess guide (nhs.uk)
- Managing transfers of care – a high impact change model: changes 1-9 (LGA)
FutureNHS collaboration platform (registration required)
- Practical advice to improve earlier discharge (ECIST Network)
- Better Care Exchange (Better Care Fund) (Better Care Fund)
Case studies
FutureNHS collaboration platform (registration required)
- University Hospitals Dorset – Criteria to Reside: Good practice
- South Warwickshire NHS FT – Implementation of the long stay patient review process
- Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS FT – Implementation of the weekly long length of stay patient reviews
- Kettering General Hospital NHS FT – Reducing long length of stay
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT – Reducing long stays