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The Early Intervention story continues
Early Intervention in Birmingham continues to make brilliant progress, demonstrating the success of the system change capability that was embedded. The roll out of the programme was particularly timely as it played a key role in the city’s response to COVID-19, with many aspects of the programme helping to ease the intense pressure this put on the health and care system. Patient flow through the four Discharge Hubs at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust reached a decade-high thanks to the new operational and service measures introduced by the Early Intervention team in response to the pandemic. The EICT played a particularly important role in easing pressure on hospital and care home beds by ensuring that those who were able to return home could do so with the right level of support or avoid a hospital stay in the first place.
Aspects of the programme were also advanced during the pandemic, such as the extension of the OPAL service to include the West Midlands Ambulance Service. “AskOPAL” enables paramedics to connect via video link from a patient’s home to the OPAL team at the hospital front door, to assess whether they could be supported at home rather than being conveyed to a UHB hospital. Through this service, 70% of people avoided transfer to the acute and were able to be supported at home, either receiving advice or prescriptions services, or being referred to the EICT for the appropriate support in their own home.
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There is much more of a collaborative working environment and more trust between organisations and that in itself gives us an ability to do things that we would have never done before.” Director of Partnerships, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
This service is absolutely exemplary. It’s a national leader and it delivers on the ambition that those of us that have been involved in older people’s services set: to enable people to live in their own homes independently for as long as possible, which is what we all want. It’s a fantastic piece of work.” Chief Executive, Birmingham and Solihull CCG
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