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Planning for care closer to home
Derbyshire’s Integrated Care Systems (ICS) is called Joined Up Care Derbyshire (JUCD) and is a partnership that brings together providers (those who deliver services) and commissioners (those who plan and buy services) with other local partners to collectively plan health and care services to meet the needs of the One of the main aims of Joined Up Care Derbyshire is to plan, design and implement care closer to or in people’s Planning for care closer to home One of the main aims of Joined Up Care Derbyshire is to plan, design and implement care closer to or in people’s local population. There are 42 Integrated Care Systems in total, which cover all parts of England. homes. This reduces the need for people to have a stay in hospital and support them to be discharged from homes. This reduces the need for people to have a stay in hospital and support them to be discharged from hospital when medically assessed as ready to return home. This is done by ensuring that the appropriate level of hospital when medically assessed as ready to return home. This is done by ensuring that the appropriate level of care and support is available for people at the time they need it. care and support is available for people at the time they need it. A stay in a hospital can have a debilitating impact on a person’s independence. People’s preferences for care are A stay in a hospital can have a debilitating impact on a person’s independence. People’s preferences for care are changing with more opting for care at home, or close to home in their own communities when possible. changing with more opting for care at home, or close to home in their own communities when possible.
35% of 70-year-old patients (increasing to 65% for those over 90 years old) experience a deterioration in their One of the main aims of Joined Up Care Derbyshire is to plan, design and implement care closer to or in people’s homes. This reduces the need for people to have a stay in hospital and support them to be discharged from hospital when medically assessed as ready to return home. This is done by ensuring that the appropriate level of 35% of 70-year-old patients (increasing to 65% for those over 90 years old) experience a deterioration in their mobility and a loss of independence in relation to being care and support is available for people at the time they need it.mobility and a loss of independence in relation to being
able to perform daily living tasks, such as dressing, able to perform daily living tasks, such as dressing,
toileting and bathing, as a result of a stay in hospital. A stay in a hospital can have a debilitating impact on a person’s independence. People’s preferences for care are toileting and bathing, as a result of a stay in hospital. changing with more opting for care at home, or close to home in their own communities when possible.
Joined Up Care Derbyshire’s ambition for care and treatment is outlined below: Joined Up Care Derbyshire’s ambition for care and treatment is outlined below:
Ensuring that illness is prevented wherever possible. People are helped to stay well, mobility and a loss of independence in relation to being Ensuring that illness is prevented wherever possible. People are helped to stay well, manage their own health, and recognise the importance of identifying symptoms able to perform daily living tasks, such as dressing, manage their own health, and recognise the importance of identifying symptoms early on, so they can lead happier and healthier lives. toileting and bathing, as a result of a stay in hospital. early on, so they can lead happier and healthier lives.
Community: Community:
Ensuring where illness cannot be prevented it is treated in the community Joined Up Care Derbyshire’s ambition for care and treatment is outlined below:Ensuring where illness cannot be prevented it is treated in the community and primary care (for example, at your local GP surgery). This will ensure that and primary care (for example, at your local GP surgery). This will ensure that people are increasingly cared for in their own home, and remain independent Prevention: people are increasingly cared for in their own home, and remain independent for as long as possible. Ensuring that illness is prevented wherever possible. People are helped to stay well, for as long as possible. manage their own health, and recognise the importance of identifying symptoms Secondary care treatment: early on, so they can lead happier and healthier lives. Secondary care treatment: If care is required in hospital, it is important that treatment is provided without If care is required in hospital, it is important that treatment is provided without having to stay in hospital as an inpatient wherever possible. Community: having to stay in hospital as an inpatient wherever possible. Ensuring where illness cannot be prevented it is treated in the community and primary care (for example, at your local GP surgery). This will ensure that Support to go home: people are increasingly cared for in their own home, and remain independent Support to go home: If an inpatient stay is needed, when people no longer need a hospital bed for as long as possible. If an inpatient stay is needed, when people no longer need a hospital bed it is important they are supported to return home as soon as possible. it is important they are supported to return home as soon as possible.
