Enhancing health in care homes

Offering people joined-up, coordinated health and care services, for example by aligning community nurse teams and GP practices with care homes, can help reduce unnecessary admissions to hospital as well as improve hospital discharge.

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Feedback on what works and how to overcome the challenges

  • training care staff to deal with greater frailty and complexity
  • incentivising the market to have the right kinds of placements available.