\n According to the NHS, the scheme in Wirral is reducing A&E attendances and unplanned hospital admissions for people with frailty and long-term conditions, while also cutting GP appointments by 15 per cent.\n<\/p>\n
\n Currently, 1,000 people are being supported to remain well in their own homes.\n<\/p>\n
\n David Hammond, deputy chief strategy officer at Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Integrating teams to provide care for patients makes a real difference.\n<\/p>\n
\n “By working as one team, we\u2019re able to spot issues early, provide personalised support, prevent crises, and help people stay well and independent at home.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This is helping to reduce unnecessary hospital stays and provide continuity for those with the most complex needs.\n<\/p>\n
\n “By supporting patients in their own homes, we\u2019re not just responding to illness – we\u2019re preventing it, improving quality of life, and making our local health system more sustainable.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The programme, which began as a pilot in January 2024, was developed with Moreton and Meols Primary Care Network (PCN).\n<\/p>\n
\n It has now been extended across four of Wirral\u2019s six PCN areas.\n<\/p>\n
\n The remaining two are expected to join by the end of 2025.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to the NHS, integrated care teams, bringing together NHS community services, PCN staff, adult social care, and voluntary partners, deliver personalised care tailored to individual needs.\n<\/p>\n
\n Referrals typically come from GPs or community teams.\n<\/p>\n
\n This is followed by home visits to develop an individual care and support plan.\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Rowan Pritchard Jones, medical director at NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, said: “Wirral\u2019s proactive care programme is bringing together the teams who support people with frailty and chronic disease to provide increasingly personalised and holistic care.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This work also embodies the NHS 10-Year Plan\u2019s vision of shifting care from hospital to the community and moving from sickness to prevention.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the NHS, the scheme in Wirral is reducing A&E attendances and unplanned hospital admissions for people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-303991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}