Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Stockport’s Intermediate Care system identified a number of challenges in delivering its Discharge to Assess model, as their integrated partnership causes issues with the sharing and availability of quality data.
A potential solution to transform how they work together for customers as a partnership, is an Adult Social Care Digital Patient Journey Management System.
Stockport’s project team will conduct an investigation into this solution, which would record each part of a patient’s journey to inform the most suitable pathway for them outside of hospital care.
Potential benefits for customers and the project partners include:
- the ability to view capacity and demand data at an operational and strategic level
- the ability to see where an individual is in the system, how long they have been there, and if they are ‘stuck’
- the development of in-house tools to manage patient flow are no longer needed
- instant access to data will allow the planning of journeys and capacity, and support decision making
This is a local, regional and national challenge, and is reflected in the latest government focus around discharge and ambulance turnaround. Stockport expects this to be a potential scalable solution.
- instant access to data would allow the planning of journeys, capacity, and support decision making
This is a local, regional and national challenge, and is reflected in the latest government focus around discharge and ambulance turnaround. Stockport expects this to be a potential scalable solution.
