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A huge amount of work to support people to stay living in their homes, working with local
voluntary organisations has already been completed. A new community rehabilitation
services has been set up so that people are discharged from hospital earlier but have
the support they need to stay living at home. Telehealth has also been piloted to
monitor people following hospital admission for heart failure. This means that patient‟s
vital signs can be actively monitored while they are living at home and a community
specialist nurse can identify any problems and arrange treatment before hospital
admission becomes necessary. There are plans in place to extend this to patients who
have had a stroke. NHS Hull are also offering free Caring with Confidence sessions to
carers aged 18 years and over to help support carers.
NHS Hull have increased the capacity in work experience opportunities in the NHS, and
created a Health Award, so that young people can have evidence of working on health
and social care projects while learning simultaneously about the NHS and its roles and
functions. A mentoring programme is also underway to give young people guidance,
support and advice on how to achieve their aims of working in the NHS. NHS Hull is
also helping with apprenticeships in health and have a job shop set up jointly with NHS
Hull and Hull City Council to give information, advice and guidance on NHS careers.
GPs, as well as 30 pharmacies across Hull, offerred free „Healthy Heart‟ checks to Hull
residents aged between 40 and 64 years as long as they are not already being treated
for cardiovascular disease. There were further checks taking place in the community
such as at local shopping centres. From April 2010, this initiative became the NHS
Health Check and the upper age limit raised to 74 years.
NHS Hull is also currently looking into other options, such as using special state-of-theart,
health kiosks, allowing individuals to measure their weight, body mass index, body
fat content, blood pressure and heart rate. One such health kiosk has been installed at
Health Central (a drop-in centre for health).
Other actions are taking place on other key findings from the Listening Exercise, and a
comprehensive action plan has been produced, which is being fed into the World Class
Commissioning (WCC) Strategy via the goal groups. A working group was also set up
which planeed to highlight any gaps found in the findings from the listening exercise and
implementation of changes. Following the change of government in May 2010, and the
major NHS reorganisation (see section 3.3.6 on page 51), a number of these services
could change.
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