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       How to reduce paediatric admissions?
       By: admini5 Date: May 13, 2015, 8:13 am
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       By service redesign programme for the care of children
       presenting to accident and emergency departments. Senior
       paediatricians would triage children, and one quarter of
       children who would previously have been admitted would be
       managed as outpatients or in the community, releasing savings of
       £129 million across the NHS.
       The NHS Institute has undertaken a rapid improvement programme,
       focusing on achieving a 25% reduction in admissions of children
       and young people by managing them in an ambulatory manner,
       rather than admitting them as inpatients.
       This is based on reducing the number of children admitted and
       providing alternative pathways for their care, including more
       senior decision making at the front door to ensure that patients
       get the right care, in the right place, first time.
       The proposal is to replicate the programme across more NHS
       sites, reaping similar benefits in cost and quality to those
       that have been observed in the current delivery sites.
       There are potential scalable benefits of £129 million to be
       achieved by reducing by 25% both the number of emergency
       admissions and the number of children and young people who
       present at emergency departments.
       For further information, please visit:
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