Reading a recent Coopers & Lybrand report. Came across the term 'health
park'. WTF is that?
Perhaps someone has confused things like barrier (nursing), (theatre)
greens, (sick) bays, (nurses' home) warden, and (pre) eclampsia.
(serious mode on) Perhaps it's about Intermediate Care. Anyone got an
interest in this? Information required to support same? I'm involved
with a Total FH outfit who are keen to change things. Like 10 days in
acute hosp for hip replacement becoming pre-op stuff done by GP and DN, 3
days in acute hospital, 3 in GP/ Cottage Hosp, physio and DN there and at
home for the rest.
Two wee problems. Inadequate systems and inadequate codes. The latter to
clump together the whole, the former to aid clinical communication and
then demonstrate with retrospective analyses that it's better care at
better cost. For which you need clump-together codes.
Whether that's not a health park, anyone cracked the information aspects?
Alan Hyslop
Computing & IT Strategy
Management Executive, NHS in Scotland.
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