South west London has 17 CCG funded inpatients in placements. According to the national planning assumptions, there should be 10-15 inpatients in CCG commissioned beds per million population. South west London has a population of 1.5 million, meaning that the maximum number that should be in CCG commissioned beds is 23 (1.5 × 15). South west London as a whole is complying with the national planning assumption, however it is recognised that patients are not evenly distributed across the south west London boroughs, and that not all of these inpatients are being treated closer to home. To ensure that the vision outlined above is delivered, the following measures of success will be used: SPECIFIC MEASURE To reduce crisis events by adopting early intervention and prevention techniques. These There will be fewer crisis events will be identified by multidisciplinary teams across south west London. across south west London who take appropriate South west London boroughs will actions to intervene and try to ensure that have multidisciplinary teams in place potential crisis events are identified early, and escalation is avoided. The level of follow up support To reduce readmissions following a crisis event following admissions will be by appropriately following up with patients when increased, and the number of they have been discharged. readmissions will reduce. Personal budgets and personal health budgets will be offered to To offer personal budgets and personal health patients on the same across budgets equitably across south west London. south west London, regardless of where they reside. Patients will access a variety of services on their individual need. To provide patients a wide choice of services, Patients will be able to access their and to ensure that services are appropriately personal health budget (if they wish) signposted. and use this to purchase services that they require. There will be an increase in the use of To provide advocacy support for patients. advocates and mentors across south west London.
South west London has 17 CCG funded inpatients in placements. According to the national planning assumptions, there should be 10-15 inpatients in CCG commissioned beds per million population. South west London has a population of 1.5 million, meaning that the maximum number that should be in CCG commissioned beds is 23 (1.5 × 15). South west London as a whole is complying with the national planning assumption, however it is recognised that patients are not evenly distributed across the south west London boroughs, and that not all of these inpatients are being treated closer to home. To ensure that the vision outlined above is delivered, the following measures of success will be used: SPECIFIC MEASURE To reduce crisis events by adopting early intervention and prevention techniques. These will be identified by multidisciplinary teams across south west London who take appropriate actions to intervene and try to ensure that potential crisis events are identified early, and escalation is avoided. There will be fewer crisis events across south west London. South west London boroughs will have multidisciplinary teams in place To reduce readmissions following a crisis event by appropriately following up with patients when they have been discharged. The level of follow up support following admissions will be increased, and the number of readmissions will reduce. To offer personal budgets and personal health budgets equitably across south west London. Personal budgets and personal health budgets will be offered to patients on the same across south west London, regardless of where they reside. To provide patients a wide choice of services, and to ensure that services are appropriately signposted. Patients will access a variety of services on their individual need. Patients will be able to access their personal health budget (if they wish) and use this to purchase services that they require. To provide advocacy support for patients. There will be an increase in the use of advocates and mentors across south west London.
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