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Northern Care Alliance and the Four Localities Partnership: Improving Care for People With Dementia Across an Acute Hospital Discharge Pathway

A collaboration of health, care, and voluntary organisations across the Northern Care Alliance footprint has successfully implemented new ways of supporting people living with dementia who need emergency care and hospital admission. This has reduced time in hospital, mortality and harm associated with multiple ward moves and delayed discharges. The result is increasing numbers of people returning home and avoiding admission to long-term care.

The programme has redesigned care for people with dementia and addressed underlying harm from mental and physical deconditioning.

The local work is a pilot site for NHS England’s Discharge Integration Frontrunner programme, the only one focused on dementia, deconditioning, and discharge.

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