At Home project
Delivering vital & comprehensive support that allows seriously ill children to return home while freeing up beds for children waiting on critical care
Working in partnership on the wards to support the transfer home. Enabling children to recover at home, and families to rebuild and thrive.
With circa 15% of children with serious or terminal conditions unable to leave the ward, even though they are medically fit to leave, there is a huge need for support in the community.
Our At Home Project frees up around 900 bed days per year, per hospital. This gives about 50-100 children access to care that they would have had to wait weeks or months for.
This equates to around £1.2 Million for the hospital in unnecessary costs.
Children at home have a much better recovery rate, as well as reduced depression.
Families that can care for their child at home can re-build and thrive. Families with children in hospital for excessive time suffer around 60% marital breakdowns.
The Impact
We provide:
- Dedicated Care Co-Ordinator to ensure no child and family is without support
- Our unique 24/7 support line, giving families peace of mind via access to medical, community and emergency services
- Peer to Peer support facilitation for parents and child, providing support, fighting loneliness and isolation
- Financial, practical and emotional support through referral or signposting to local and national charities & agencies
- Prioritising mental health and wellbeing support for the child/young person and family
The Outcomes:
- Improved medical recovery of the child, reduced depression of child and families able to stay together and heal.
- Hundreds of children returned home per year, per hospital, freeing up the bed for a child waiting for critical care
- Reduction in A&E/Local Hospital bed waiting times
- Huge reduction of unnecessary re-admissions to hospital which are so damaging to the family and cost our NHS millions of pounds per year