Reducing pressure on Emergency Departments (ED)
SELDOC’s role is to work in partnership with local hospitals to reduce the pressure on their emergency departments. Our virtual assessments mean that patients may not need to visit an Urgent Treatment Centre or an ED facility.
We work with each hospital to establish the urgent primary care service they need. This may be via a single GP streaming patients at the front door of ED – or a complex service with multi-skilled primary care teams managing minor illnesses and injuries for a large volume of patients on the hospital site.
Hospital @Home
SELDOC works in partnership with acute Trusts to:
Provide acute ‘step up’ and ‘step down’ care to local residents, treating people with an urgent care need within their own homes
Prevent avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions
Enable effective discharge of patients to complete medical treatment and rehabilitation at home
Provide an urgent two hour response service
Deliver an improved patient experience with good health outcomes.
SELDOC's partnerships for @Home services enable the delivery of integrated care pathways for patients. This is to ensure continuity between hospital care and community care.
To talk to us about designing an Urgent Care Service for your hospital, please contact Jacqueline at: j.o'meara@nhs.net