The best of both worlds. Service integration delivers patient benefit
Recovery at home is a popular choice for many patients and clinicians. Recently HomeLink Healthcare provided care at home for a patient recovering from emergency surgery who required daily intravenous antibiotics for six weeks. Faced with an extended hospital...
Private Patients Benefit from Recovery at Home Services
HomeLink Healthcare is offering choice to patients from private hospitals and private wards in London by providing them with some of their treatment at home. Many people stay in hospital to receive treatment that can be provided safely in their own home, reducing the...
Case Study – Improving Patient Flow Through Early Supported Discharge and Virtual Wards
IntroductionHomeLink Healthcare has been working with the NHS to help deliver and evaluate Early Supported Discharge and Virtual Ward services. These services, designed to improve patient flow, provide care at home for patients who would otherwise have had...
NNUH at Home service saves 365 bed days at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Within its first four months a new service, NNUH at Home, which prevents patients having to stay in the hospital any longer than necessary, has saved the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) 365 bed days. Patients often have to remain in hospital after they...
The emotional impact of caring – who asks how you are feeling?
When someone close to us needs our care we want to do the best we can to help, so we: try to think of all the ways we can look after them and put our energy into helping them HOWEVER: because we are busy thinking about someone else’s needs, we forget about our own AND...
Anxiety – a guide to some of the causes, effects and ways of managing anxiety.
When someone close to us needs our care we want to do the best we can to help, so we: try to think of all the ways we can look after them and put our energy into helping them HOWEVER: because we are busy thinking about someone else’s needs, we forget about our own AND...
A new framework makes it easier to procure Hospital at Home services
Understanding Anxiety What is it? Anxiety is a normal human reaction in times of danger and stress. It affects all of us at different times and in different ways. It can be felt through our thoughts, feelings and physical sensations in the body. Our minds and bodies...
How can NHS organisations improve their preparation for next winter?
The NHS Long Term Plan recommends that ‘care will increasingly be delivered in people’s homes or somewhere convenient, freeing up space in hospitals for those who need it’. A new purchasing framework created by NHS Shared Business Services is making it easier and...
Patients and doctors pilot a new discharge process at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington
We understand that winter bed pressure is now an all year-round concern and that many organisations are seeking alternatives to adding escalation beds or cancelling electives. Early Supported Discharge and Admission Avoidance are two practical ways of...
Community Nursing role welcomed by patients and enjoyed by nurses
A pioneering way to help patients return home from hospital more promptly is already proving popular with nurses, doctors and patients at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Clinicians and managers at St Mary’s Hospital...
New Service Relieves Pressure on Hospital Beds in Norwich
Nursing can be a challenging job, but with the right work environment and the opportunity to provide great care to patients, we believe we have got the right balance. Providing clinical care at home means that HomeLink Healthcare nurses, therapists and health care...
Helping the NHS Prepare for Winter
Bill, 82, had recently been diagnosed with Endocarditis
Kathy was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer
A pioneering way to help patients return home from hospital more promptly is already proving popular with nurses, doctors and patients at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Clinicians and managers at St Mary’s Hospital...