Following on from the successful Discharge Summit in March 2023 there is an enthusiasm to continue to work together to share great practice and continue to improve.
This was the catalyst to create our Discharge and Safe Transfer of Care Collaborative which is an active community of interest for all people across the NENC system to come together in an online space with a common purpose to improve transfer of care by:
At our collaborative meeting in October, we were joined by Catherine Reay and Rachel Daurat, System Co-ordinators at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust who presented 'Community focused care – how working together and education enhances the patient journey'. You can find a recording of this presentation below:
In our February session, we focused on the last of the three themes identified at the December collaborative meeting: Drug changes on discharge. We were joined by Anna Creber (Lead Pharmacist, Sunderland PCNs, SGPA and Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist, NENC ICB) who presented: "Primary Care Medicines Discharge Hub". As we were at the last of the series of six meetings booked in, we took the opportunity to recap on what we have done as a collaborative and evaluated the impact of this as a group.
