Hospital at Home

Hospital at Home provides short term unscheduled hospital-level care in patient’s own home or homely setting. We work with health and social care teams to set-up, improve and expand hospital at home services for adults, babies and children.

We aim to improve quality of care, care experience and impact of services that meet the definition of hospital at home (insert link to navigation page) by: 

• Ensuring conditions for change such as funding and infrastructure
• Establish a new service, for example supporting set up of adult services into Island, remote, rural areas, and paediatric services
• Expand condition pathways and,
• Optimise existing services

Our support to services aims to:

• improve unscheduled care experience for acutely ill people and their carers
• increase the number of people who access hospital at home as an alternative to traditional hospital admissions
• reduce the time people spend in hospital by enabling hospital-level care to continue at home
• reduce pressure on hospitals by enabling more people to be treated at home as an alternative to unscheduled hospital admission, and
• improve staff experience for people working in hospital at home services.

Email us at his.communitycare@nhs.scot if you would like to speak to a member of the team or to sign up to receive a copy of our newsletter.