Excellence and Choice in Older Peoples Services - Belfast Health ...

• Dementia services
This work involves reviewing the current role of the inpatient beds at
Knockbracken Healthcare Park.
The purpose of the review is to ensure that inpatient resources are used
effectively to support the treatment and care of individuals who experience
severe challenging behaviours.
This initiative will also include support to the Elderly Mentally Infirm nursing
home sector in order to develop systematic ways to share best practice and
partnership working.
Evidence suggests that improving approaches to the management of
challenging behaviours substantially reduces the severity and frequency of
symptoms.
This proposed service will require fewer inpatient beds. Instead it will benefit
from an enriched community multi-disciplinary team, appropriate to the needs
of people with dementia, working together to deliver high standards of care for
both inpatients and individuals in the EMI nursing home sector or other
community settings.
• Streamlining day hospitals
Day hospitals provide essential access to highly specialist diagnostics
treatment and rehabilitation services. A review of day hospital work is
underway to ensure that
- these services are located appropriately in hospital and community
settings
- accessible to Accident and Emergency departments and primary care
and
- delivered in an efficient manner.
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