Hospital and community healthcare teams can take advantage of an innovative solution to meeting the requirements of The Government’s new Hospital Discharge Service: Policy & Operating Model. The Model maintains that 35% of people will require an ongoing package of care, and 45% to be discharged with up to six weeks’ recovery support from health […]
As an additional £500+m funding is announced to alleviate bed blocking and expedite hospital discharge, AAT announces a raft of rapid delivery, best value measures to provide support once at home.
Occupational Therapists can quickly and cost-effectively make inroads into the backlog of people needing equipment to go, or remain, at home. The solution reduces the strain on carers too.
How many children and adults with impairments are currently struggling with discharge from hospital, or inability to access parts of their home, because of problems getting up and down stairs or steps in their residence?
I know training only took place on Wednesday this week and everyone was really happy. But today I have a very happy older lady and ecstatic staff. The lady had “slipped off her bed between her commode and bed, she “bum” shuffled to her kitchen to see if she could use her hand rails. Carers […]
OT: I was trialling a Gravity Chair with a family and it has worked so well that we had left it with them for an extended loan and the young man who we were trialling it with has actually learnt to sit independently which is something we have be trying to achieve for years!
Hi D I have been keeping a spreadsheet on the use of Treat-Eezi. I believe it to be a realistic and an honest reflection of what we would have spent without Treat-Eezi There needs to be a bigger uptake now though but it’s still easier to order air than a Treat Eezi (the problem with […]
It was with great sadness and shock that we learned of the loss of one of our team mates. Daniel came to our attention as a customer several years ago and quickly became a friend and colleague. With his big beaming smile and love of being involved, he would often be found helping us on […]
Large school in Birmingham, Calthorpe Academy have been trialing our Large Chillibean. This has proven a great success and the school has now ordered 2 Large Chillibeans and are looking to purchase another 4 for other classes. Head of complex care at the school has said that for post op children the Chillibean gives them […]
A really interesting session today at a wheelchair service, the young child had a rare condition where his nerve ending had gathered in small nodules on his back and side, which he found really uncomfortable when sitting . His current wheelchair had an off the shelf solid back with foam insert, that wasn’t comfortable and […]
