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The next KE Hub online Triage Workshop will be presented by These Hands Academy.
Better Connected Care – a case for transformation
“How can the use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in care homes, combined with an analysis of wider determinants of health, improve the proactive management of deterioration in residents with long-term conditions, and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions?”
These Hands Academy has provided care homes with the ability to record a NEWS score, which is the only validated tool used across the NHS to respond to deterioration. We have collected 18 months worth of clinical data across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Used proactively, we believe this data can help us start to understand how well people are living in care homes, often with long-term conditions.
We would like to use this data as a benchmark for health care to understand social care and drive improvement, training and provision. However, we first need to understand the data more deeply in relation to the wider determinants of health and virtual ward provision, which is often siloed to a disease process. The analysis would support a case for transformation across the social care sectors to embed this proactive tool to manage deterioration and avoid unnecessary admissions that result in extended and harmful hospital stays.
Academic mathematical scientists from KE Hub partner university departments are invited to take part in these workshops. If you would like to attend, please contact your local KE Champion to receive the meeting link or get in touch with the organisers, Lauren Hyndman and Diwei Zhou.
KE Hub Triage Workshops are informal discussion sessions where one B.I.G. Partner presents a challenge they are currently facing, with the aim of determining:
- What, if any, mathematical sciences approaches can be used to address the challenge?
- Who from the mathematical sciences community would like to take on the challenge?
- What mechanisms are most appropriate for driving the challenge forward?
The purpose of these workshops is to allow the B.I.G. Partner to engage directly with academic mathematical scientists to probe the scientific content of their proposed challenge. The environment is relaxed and interactive, and we encourage questions, clarifications and discussions throughout. You can find information on all upcoming and past workshops here.