The NHS will face the winter peak in demand with around 5500 fewer beds than last year, the Health Service Journal reported earlier this month. Covid-19 precautions are behind much of the decline in numbers, for example infection control measures mean beds are more...

Covid-19 Home Testing Service Improves Capacity, Accessibility and Patient Flow. This case study looks at how an urgent need for addition home testing for Covid-19 was addressed by HomeLink Healthcare, working in partnership with Norfolk and Norwich University...

Every year on the 14th October – Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) come together to celebrate being part of the AHP family. It is a social movement that enables AHPs from different backgrounds and organisations to collaborate within and outside of their services,...

Unfortunately, this is not only a phrase used in the TV series Game of Thrones, it is an often misused call to arms for the NHS as the dark nights start to draw in. However, this year whilst we don’t expect to have to deal with White Walkers and Wildlings in the...

We understand the importance of protecting our IT systems from cyber-attack and are committed to securing our systems in line with the National Cyber Security Centre’s guidelines. We have taken steps to guard against the most common cyber-security threats including:...

Every day we are bombarded with myriad choices. A quick visit to a coffee shop, and we are faced with tens of alternatives about how we would we like our favourite beverage: are you drinking in or taking out , small, medium, large, with or without milk, full fat, semi...

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals and HomeLink Healthcare are delighted that NNUH at Home is a finalist in the prestigious HSJ Partnership Awards, in the Best Healthcare Provider with NHS category. NNUH at Home provides a Virtual Ward and Early Supported...

I hear all too often that it takes some organisations weeks, in some cases over a month, to prepare accurate management information reports and that usually boils down to the lack of trust in the data that is made available this purpose. Typically, with timescales...

Patients are spending unnecessary nights in a hospital bed because of delays in services which would provide their care at home or in another setting. NHS Hospital Trusts have been working hard with their community partners to improve the integration of services so...

Despite plastics being a part of our lives for decades, it only feels as though we have woken up to the damage that we may have caused by its forever proliferating use, the environmental equivalent to the headache from the night before. To me, I feel this awareness...

HomeLink Healthcare has been providing clinical care in the home with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since January 2019, to release in-patient bed capacity and improve patient choice. The two organisations have co-created the service,...

I love working in the community – my early career was spent looking after people at home and my belief is that is where people should be unless they are really sick. It’s always been a bit of a dilemma – Are people better off as patients on a hospital ward or as...

So here we are again! Having been one of the founders of Medihome, back in 2003, I am very proud that, with some of the successful team that set Medihome up, we have done it again. Our new, much improved, service is called HomeLink Healthcare, offering hospital at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A new service developed in partnership by Norwich and Norfolk Hospitals University NHS Trust and HomeLink Healthcare is freeing up hospital beds at the busiest time of the year.

Care at home will help relieve winter bed shortage