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       Implementation costs for 24 hours Asthma service for young peopl
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       By: admini5 Date: April 15, 2015, 11:24 am
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       What are the costs to implement 24 hours Asthma service for
       young people?
       This initiative requires the primary care organisation or
       Community Trust to invest in an additional whole time equivalent
       band 6 paediatric nurse, which is a recurrent cost included in
       the net saving above. The primary care organisation may also
       incur extra contract activity costs from patients receiving
       advice or treatment in a community setting which previously
       would have been in A&E/as an in-patient, but this will be at a
       lower tariff.
       Other additional set-up costs are a laptop and 2 emergency bags
       with oxygen, consumables and drugs.
       Agreeing the service redesign, developing treatment algorithms
       and recruiting a nurse require an investment of time from a
       multidisciplinary project team during the set-up phase.
       The cost of the extra equipment and the time invested in project
       management was equivalent to between 6 months’ and 1 year’s
       savings.
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