Local authorities

How do our services help local authorities?  

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 re-ablement services. Our services can start from day one and we are able to visit up to seven times per 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.  

In the nine months from October 2021 to June 2022, our Lewisham re-ablement service saw 297 patients and delivered 2,323 visits. As a result, a waiting list of 203 patients was reduced by 85% to just 30, patient outcomes significantly improved and the service was short-listed for a CAHPO award. Read the case study here.  

Read our case study about how intensive physiotherapy had a big impact on ‘Pat’s’ life.  

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 Barthel score to measure the extent to which people can function independently in all activities of daily living.  

Our in-reach care home re-ablement service is a way of us providing this service to people who have been discharged in the short-term to a care home because they need a programme of re-ablement support before they are able to return their own home. Read our case study about how this service has benefitted patients and the system.

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 percent.