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HomeLink Healthcare is a clinician-led organisation that has been providing Hospital at Home services since 2016. We currently deliver early supported discharge (ESD) and discharge to assess (D2A) pathways for NHS Trusts across England.
Early supported discharge and discharge to assess
Early Supported Discharge (ESD) and Discharge to Assess (D2A) enable the accelerated discharge of patients to the place they call home rather than being on a hospital ward. Patients who meet the criteria can go home earlier than they otherwise would to recover at home.
ESD patients are assessed for their post-hospital care whilst they are in hospital.
D2A patients are discharged from hospital and their assessments take place at home.
What type of patients are suitable for early supported discharge / discharge to assess?
ESD and D2A are suitable for patients with almost all medical conditions.
“The whole team were excellent, punctual, professional and co-ordinated with other disciplines – I do not see how this could be improved upon.”
– Patient feedback
What are the features of HomeLink Healthcare’s ESD and D2A services?
As with all of our services, the features of our ESD and D2A services include:
- working in partnership with other providers to coordinate and schedule care and to address inequalities in access to care
- assessment of patient needs, either pre-discharge or at home
- facilitating same-day transfer/discharge
- home-based care up to QDS (visits up to four times a day), seven days a week
- a 24/7 on-call service, every day of the year
- real-time activity data / analytics
- KPIs and business intelligence reporting
- holistic multi-disciplinary care wrapped around the patient needs
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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.
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- 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
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Find out more about the process of commissioning HomeLink Healthcare to set up a hospital at home service.
Get in touch
To speak to a member of our team about our early supported discharge services, call us on (020) 3137 5370 or contact us. You can tell us about your situation, and we can tell you more about our experience of early supported discharge and how we might be able to help you.
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