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The specialists in Hospital at Home since 2016.
HomeLink Healthcare is a clinician-led, specialist Hospital at Home service provider. We have been delivering safe, high-quality services to NHS patients in the place they call home since 2016.
By working in partnership with hospitals, ICBs, consultants, local authorities, community providers and GPs to provide ‘out of hospital’ care we prevent some people being admitted to hospital and enable others to come home more quickly.
We provide Hospital at Home services through a number of pathways: Early Supported Discharge, Discharge to Assess, Virtual Wards, Intermediate Care at Home, Re-ablement, Rehabilitation, Admission Avoidance, and Bridging Packages of Care.
HomeLink Healthcare is a named supplier on the NHS SBS Patient Discharge and Mental Health Step Down Beds Services Framework Agreement. By using the framework, you can contract with us directly and we can get a new service up and running in around 12 weeks.
About us
Our services
Sam Sherrington, Deputy Director for Community Nursing at NHS England, Dawn Hodgkins and Danielle Henry from The Independent Healthcare Providers Network came to visit us to see how HomeLink Healthcare services work in practice.
Watch this short video with Sam and Dawn reflecting on the importance of the service and some of the great things they’d observed:
- the partnership between independent sector and the NHS.
- the innovation and quality of service.
- the care, dedication and expertise of the clinicians – nurses, therapists and more – working to deliver for patients.
Benefits of Hospital at Home services
Hospital at Home services free up hospital capacity, improve patient flow, reduce delayed discharges, deliver great patient outcomes and cost significantly less than in-hospital care.
According to NHS England:
- Patients are 5 x less likely to acquire an infection on a virtual ward compared to an acute setting.
- Patients are 8 x less likely to experience functional decline on a virtual ward compared to an acute setting.
- 2.5 x fewer patients treated on a virtual ward are re-admitted to frailty beds than the national acute benchmark.
- 23% of patients achieve a more independent social care outcome when treated in a virtual ward than they would have in an acute setting.
The full report can be found here.
About us
Hospital at Home services
Watch this video, which was created by NHS England and features HomeLink Healthcare delivering virtual ward services to patients within Norfolk and Waveney ICS.
Our Hospital at Home services prevent people being admitted to hospital and enable others to come home more quickly.
Our services:
- offer patients more choice
- improve patient flow
- free up hospital ward capacity
Our services
Partnerships
About us
Our Hospital at Home services offer great benefit to patients, reduce pressures and help save the NHS money.
- We work in four of seven NHS England regions.
- We’ve been shortlisted for an HSJ Partnership Award three times.
- Services can be procured through the SBS Patient Discharge Services framework.
- Our values are compassion, collaboration and commitment to quality care.
Hospital at Home services
Our credentials
DOWNLOAD OUR CASE STUDY
Our collaboration with four NHS organisations across Norfolk and Waveney ICS frees up two hospital wards every day and was shortlisted for a 2023 HSJ Partnership Award.
Download the case study and you’ll learn:
- The impact that can be achieved on increasing hospital capacity, improving patient flow, reducing delayed discharges and delivering great patient outcomes
- The benefits of working collaboratively with an expert Hospital at Home provider
Work with us
We have the knowledge, experience and ability to advise, mobilise, and deliver tangible outcomes for our partners.
In all our work we partner with the NHS and other organisations. We are pre-qualified on a number of NHS-approved frameworks.
We:
- recognise local requirement variations and can flex accordingly
- provide fully trained, experienced, multiskilled workforce
- report and analyse tangible outcomes for NHS patients, partners and the system.
Resources
Company news
NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) framework agreement renewal enables direct commissioning of Hospital at Home services
NHS SBS Patient Discharge Framework Agreement: HomeLink named as a supplier for Discharge to Assess and Virtual Wards.
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Thought leadership
Release in-patient bed capacity this winter with Hospital at Home services
hospitals are increasingly looking towards Hospital at Home services to free up beds ahead of winter. Find out how we can help with seasonal resilience,
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Company news
NHS England and IHPN visit HomeLink Healthcare service
Sam Sherrington, Deputy Director for Community Nursing at NHS England visited us at St. Mary’s Hospital to see how HomeLink Healthcare services work in practice. She was glowing in her praise of the service we deliver. Watch the video here!
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Case study
Case study: Feasibility assessment
A recent feasibility assessment concluded that implementing Hospital at Home services would free up significant numbers of inpatient beds.
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Case study
Case study: Partnership with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Initial discussions started in Summer 2022 before funding had been allocated. The new service was up and running in time for Winter and is delivering tangible benefits.
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We are always looking for exceptional clinical staff to join our growing team.
We know that the quality, compassion and commitment of our teams is essential to delivering high-quality care and producing excellent patient outcomes.
Whether you are a nurse, a therapist or a healthcare or rehabilitation support worker, if you work with us you will be giving people exceptional clinical care at home.
We use the Happiness Index which helps organisations measure employee engagement and happiness. Our score is 8.6 out of 10, more than 1 point above average!
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