Bridging Package of Care Services

HomeLink Healthcare’s Hospital at Home services bridge the gap between hospital and domiciliary care. Our bridging packages of care and reablement services enable hospitals to discharge complex patients when they are medically fit, freeing up beds quickly.

We provide systems with the breathing space to set up ongoing care, which can take considerable time for complex patients needing support from multiple agencies. Patients also benefit considerably from timely support which aids recovery and reduces the cost of ongoing care.

Our bridging packages of care and reablement services are delivered at home to people who need support from a multi-disciplinary team. This short-term care enables some patients to fully recover to baseline health and others to improve so that ongoing care needs are reduced.

How do our services help?

We are experts in starting complex nurse and physiotherapy-led packages of care quickly, and often within a few hours.

We provide services that can be difficult to source promptly, including support for people who:

need visits from multiple agencies e.g. community physiotherapy, district nursing and domiciliary care.
require intensive physiotherapy and reablement services. Our services can start from day one and we operate seven days a week, including weekends.
have higher clinical needs that require regular monitoring and more frequent assessment. For example people on the discharge to assess (D2A) pathway are monitored every two weeks.
may need one or more hospital stays and, as a result, have been removed from the books of the domiciliary care provider.

With our services patients avoid deconditioning and the cost of ongoing domiciliary care can be avoided or significantly reduced.

A focus on outcome measures are baked into what we do. We use the EQ-5D-5L to measure to monitor self-reported improvements in all service users’ across five dimensions: mobility; self-care; usual activities; pain and discomfort; and, anxiety & depression. For people receiving physiotherapy we use the mBarthel score to measure the extent to which people can function independently in all activities of daily living.

Money spent on HomeLink Healthcare’s services in the short-term will reap benefits for those patients in the long term and reduce the cost of longer term care. Read our case study about how timely physiotherapy reduced the cost of ongoing care by 65%.

Get in touch

We report a suite of anticipatory care key performance indicators (KPIs) in real-time, so commissioners have complete transparency about what we are doing and how we are doing it.  To find out more about the process of commissioning HomeLink Healthcare to set up a Hospital at Home service, click on the button below.

To speak to a member of our team about our services, call us on (020) 3137 5370 or email us below. You can tell us about your situation, and we can tell you more about our experience of anticipatory care and how we might be able to help you.

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Resources

Case study

In-reach physiotherapy service in care homes benefits patients and hospitals

Reablement & physio, Patient experiences

Patients are assessed by a HomeLink Healthcare physiotherapist in the care home within 72 hours of admission and start receiving physiotherapy and re-ablement immediately.

Case study

Physiotherapy at Home reduces care costs by over 65%

Reablement & physio, Patient experiences

Intensive physiotherapy at home can dramatically improve patient outcomes, shorten waiting lists and reduce care costs by over 65%.

Case study

Small steps and big changes

Reablement & physio, Patient experiences

Intensive physiotherapy over a few weeks can be the key to helping patients regain independence.

Case studyCompany news

Shortlisted for a Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) award

Reablement & physio, Awards & accreditations

HomeLink Healthcare’s AHPs Team and Lewisham Adult Therapy Team are finalists for a CAHPO Award 2022.

“Acute trusts don’t have the resource, infrastructure, we don’t have the ability set up a new service. We struggle to attract a flexible workforce. Our bank is saturated, we have the wrong skillset, and pressure points like winter, half term, school holidays. With HomeLink I am buying a service and they always deliver.” 

NHS partner feedback

“It means we have a trusted and experienced team supporting our elective patient pathway – this provides real peace of mind and their willingness to diversify and respond so quickly really has saved us from having to cancel operations so thank you HomeLink for stepping in and stepping up.”

Cursty Pepper, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

“I’ve worked with a lot of providers and HomeLink Healthcare is a very professional organisation. Every member of my team has said how respectful and courteous the staff are. It has been a pleasure to work with partners who do exactly what they say they will.”

Jenny Ricketts, Director of Community Transformation, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

“HomeLink Healthcare liaise wit me regularly about patients that I have referred to them and are very prompt in their reply to questions or queries. Having them on board is a breath of fresh air.”

Adeola Telesford, Highly Specialist Rehabilitation OT, Enabling Care Services, Lewisham

“We recognised we had a window of opportunity to put something in place that would support both our front-line teams and our patients without delaying discharges from our busy acute hospital sites. We achieved a safe, responsive and flexible service which meant patients received the ongoing support they needed.”

Kelly Hudson, Associate Director for Urgent & Emergency Care Improvement, SE London CCG

How do our services help?

Get in touch

You might also be interested in:

Resources

In-reach physiotherapy service in care homes benefits patients and hospitals

Physiotherapy at Home reduces care costs by over 65%

Small steps and big changes

Shortlisted for a Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) award

“It means we have a trusted and experienced team supporting our elective patient pathway – this provides real peace of mind and their willingness to diversify and respond so quickly really has saved us from having to cancel operations so thank you HomeLink for stepping in and stepping up.”

“I’ve worked with a lot of providers and HomeLink Healthcare is a very professional organisation. Every member of my team has said how respectful and courteous the staff are. It has been a pleasure to work with partners who do exactly what they say they will.”

“HomeLink Healthcare liaise wit me regularly about patients that I have referred to them and are very prompt in their reply to questions or queries. Having them on board is a breath of fresh air.”

Got a question? Contact us on (020) 3137 5370

Bridging package of care services

How do our services help?

Get in touch

You might also be interested in:

Resources

In-reach physiotherapy service in care homes benefits patients and hospitals

Physiotherapy at Home reduces care costs by over 65%

Small steps and big changes

Shortlisted for a Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) award

“It means we have a trusted and experienced team supporting our elective patient pathway – this provides real peace of mind and their willingness to diversify and respond so quickly really has saved us from having to cancel operations so thank you HomeLink for stepping in and stepping up.”

“I’ve worked with a lot of providers and HomeLink Healthcare is a very professional organisation. Every member of my team has said how respectful and courteous the staff are. It has been a pleasure to work with partners who do exactly what they say they will.”

“HomeLink Healthcare liaise wit me regularly about patients that I have referred to them and are very prompt in their reply to questions or queries. Having them on board is a breath of fresh air.”

Got a question? Contact us on (020) 3137 5370

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