New integrated system in Salford to reduce hospital admissions
- Jul 1, 2016
- EmmaArnold
Over 400 adult social care staff from the council will transfer to the ICO with an aim to detect any problems in patients early.
The ground-breaking move comes after four years of work from the council and hospital to create the new body.
Hannah Bottomley, solicitor in the clinical negligence department at PotterReesDolan, said:
I was thrilled to read about the upcoming launch of the Integrated Care Organisation (ICO) established by Salford Royal with the remit of managing people in the community from a social work, district nurse and mental health perspective.
The aim of having a co-ordinated approach to community need is clearly to try and limit the number of people being admitted to hospital and therefore free up vital hospital beds.
The integration of adult social care services, including mental and acute health and social care will deliver around £27m of recurrent savings by 2021.
The council hope this new organisation will deliver better and more personalised services for the city's residents.
Hannah added:
I have been concerned for a while about the number of hospital beds which are being used as the patients have additional needs which mean they cannot be discharged home safely, not those needs are not medical.
Such a co-ordinated approach to address the medical and social needs of a community can only be a positive thing and I look forward to hearing how the ICO does in the future.