When moving people between care, small details make a big difference and staff must be involved at every stage.
When moving between hospitals, home and care homes, it can be harmful to those receiving care if the process is poorly managed. Quite simply, time is muscle. In as little as 12 hours, an older person admitted to hospital can lose the ability and confidence to stand unaided. Once lost, that muscle and confidence is hard to recover.
Following a 2015 review by NHS Providers into transfers of care, which I chaired, it was concluded that “there is no simple solution to delays in transfers of care: no one individual to blame nor a magic bullet that will solve everything”.
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