Archipelago Healthcare Ltd are developing a new Hospital at Home for Oxfordshire Health Foundation Trust
Archipelago Healthcare Ltd are developing a new Hospital at Home for Oxfordshire Health Foundation Trust. The service is being developed to provide a timely sub-acute nursing response in situations where, without that support, a hospital admission would inevitably result. The team can also facilitate a discharge for patients who continue to require monitoring or therapy but do not need to be in hospital to receive it and whose other care needs are catered for.
The team are made up of specialist nurses who have a range of skills and can: intervene for short periods under GP direction to monitor patients, manage medication and deliver certain types of IV Therapy.
A lot of work has gone into building a safe and adaptable operating model able to deliver good continuity of care, the next stage is to build on the platform to meet the needs of GPs who may wish to use the service. This includes a consideration of the types of patient who will use the service, geographical expansion options from the current Abingdon centred catchment area and shaping procedures to suit referrers.

