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NHS Demand Management from Care Homes

September 26, 2018

A £1bn opportunity for NHS England

Improving services for care home residents through the use of clinically-led technology-enabled models of care has delivered
impressive results in existing, large scale, regional programmes.

Demand for critically constrained acute and primary NHS resources has been dramatically reduced, releasing much needed capacity, whilst improving care.

Analysis presented in this paper indicates that if this was scaled across NHS England, the value of the capacity released would be close to £1b per annum, avoiding over 226,000 emergency admissions and saving 2.5 million bed days.

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