The Royal College of Physicians announces four new Future Hospital development sites delivering clinically-led projects, focused on providing person-centred care across integrated healthcare services.
The Future Hospital development sites – located in the north, centre and south of England – will pioneer new approaches to the delivery of respiratory care, paediatric allergy care, and the care of people who are frail and elderly. The projects all aim to deliver healthcare which is joined-up, delivered in the most appropriate setting, and which meets people’s physical, psychological and social needs.
The four projects are:
- A collaboration between Central Manchester Foundation Trust, University Hospital South Manchester, and Central and South Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups, aiming to create a joined-up respiratory service harnessing the skills of allied health professionals.
- Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and the North West Paediatric Allergy Network, which will provide education and support to patients, parents and healthcare professionals in primary care to encourage self-management and reduce admissions to hospital.
- A new approach to respiratory care at Sandwell and Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, with specialists working alongside GPs in the community to improve rates of early diagnosis and management.
- North West Surrey Clinical Commissioning Group and Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital, where new locality hubs will provide a joined-up frailty service – fully integrated with local GPs – for older people and their carers.
The RCP will support the Future Hospital development sites by providing access to quality improvement expertise, helping them to implement new ways of working and providing support to evaluate the impact of their projects.
Dr Anita Donley, chair, Future Hospital Programme board and RCP clinical vice president, said:
I’m delighted to welcome the four new Future Hospital development site teams, who are all committed to making the Future Hospital model a reality. Through their focus on integrated care, the development sites are leading the way in demonstrating how a future NHS can deliver truly joined-up, person-centred healthcare for patients and carers.
Dr Frank Joseph, Future Hospital officer and consultant physician, said:
I’m excited by the enormous potential of the four new Future Hospital development sites and the opportunity to support them to deliver their projects. The commitment and determination of the teams driving these projects is a fantastic example of clinical leadership in the NHS. We hope the Future Hospital development sites will inspire other clinicians to work in partnership with patients to deliver improvements to healthcare services.
Dr Katie Coleman, GP and clinical champion for collaborative care and support planning, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), said:
With a focus on integration and person-centred care, the second phase of the Future Hospital Programme recognises the importance of collaboration across both primary and secondary care. The RCGP looks forward to engaging with this programme in the future, to ensure general practice is at the heart of service delivery in the best interests of our patients.
The four new Future Hospital development sites will join the four original development sites, which began working with the Future Hospital Programme in 2014 and are all leading projects to improve care for people who are frail and elderly.
The lessons learned through the Future Hospital Programme will be collated and shared with the rest of the NHS to spread innovative practice and nurture a powerful learning community, committed to system-wide improvement in the care of medical patients.
For further information and interviews on the Future Hospital Programme, please contact Joanna Morgan, communications manager, RCP Care Quality Improvement Department, on 020 3075 1354.
For further information about the specific development site projects, please contact:
- Central and South Manchester: Jenny Fairhurst, Communications Manager or telephone 0161 291 5766
- North West Paediatric Allergy Network: Amy Blackburn, Communications Department, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, or telephone 0161 901 2659
- Sandwell and Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: Vanya Rogers Head of External Communications, or telephone 0121 507 4093
- North West Surrey CCG and Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital: Giselle Rothwell, Head of Communications or telephone 01932 723740
NHS organisations across the UK were invited to apply to become Future Hospital development sites. The four new Future Hospital development sites will join the four original development sites, who began working with the Future Hospital Programme in 2014 and are all leading projects to improve care for people who are frail and elderly. Further information can be found at: www.rcplondon.ac.uk/FHP
The RCP invited four projects to join the Future Hospital Programme include:
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Central and South Manchester
This collaborative project unites Central Manchester Foundation Trust (CMFT), University Hospital South Manchester (UHMS) and Central and South Manchester CCGs with the aim of creating a single respiratory integrated care service; thereby enhancing patient experience, and gaining greater efficiency and value from resources. The project entails creating and implementing a model of integrated respiratory care that will allow seamless transition across the patient pathway from diagnosis, acute and chronic disease management to palliative care, which is standardised and reduces healthcare inequality across central and south Manchester. We aim to move services from secondary care into community settings, including respiratory diagnostics, a significant proportion of outpatient activity and the management of exacerbations and end of life care where this can be achieved effectively and efficiently.
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Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and the North West Paediatric Allergy Network: Support for self-management and shared decision making are fundamental components of the work at the North West Paediatric Allergy Network. The team aims to educate and empower patients, parents and primary care professionals, and reduce inappropriate allergy admissions and outpatient attendance to secondary and tertiary care. This work aims to improve primary healthcare knowledge and confidence in diagnosing and managing non-complex food milk and peanut allergies, through education and the implementation of pathways to streamline patient care and reduce inappropriate prescribing of milk products.
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Sandwell and Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: The Sandwell and Birmingham team recognise the need to change the way they work in order to deliver high quality care. ‘The Right Care, Right Here’ programme places emphasis on teams working with no barriers. Striving to be a beacon for how care should be provided to patients, the changes anticipate the opening of a new hospital, the ‘Midland Metropolitan Hospital (MMH), in 2018. The respiratory services will deliver an integrated approach to care by not only increasing presence within the acute hospital by Consultant service led delivery and a whole system approach, but also by integrating and “out reaching” within primary care.
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North West Surrey CCG and Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital
With an ambition of delivering the best possible outcomes for frail, older patients, the team seek to create a fully coherent health and care system by establishing a fully integrated, person-centred service based around Locality Hubs. The Locality Hubs are physical buildings, alongside a community hospital, providing an integrated frailty service for people and their carers, with all GP locality practices and their services operating in a network supported by diagnostics, pharmacy and transport services.
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The Royal College of Physicians
Everything that we do at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) aims to improve patient care and reduce illness. We are patient centred and clinically led. We drive improvement in the diagnosis of disease, the care of individual patients and the health of the whole population, both in the UK and across the globe.
Our 30,000 members worldwide work in hospitals and the community across 30 different medical specialties. They range from medical students to retired doctors. Physicians diagnose and treat illness, and promote good health. They care for millions of medical patients with a huge range of conditions, from asthma and diabetes to stroke and yellow fever. Physicians’ clinical work ranges from caring for patients who are acutely unwell in hospital, to supporting patients to manage long-term health problems at home and encouraging people to stay fit and healthy in the community. Further information can be found at: www.rcplondon.ac.uk