Care <b>F</b>irst-<b>Fu</b>nd <b>L</b>ater (CareFFuL): an end-of-life home care quality improvement project.

ABSTRACT: Previous work found referrals for end-of-life care are made late in the dying process and assessment processes for care funding, through continuing healthcare fast-track funding often inhibit people being able to die at home. The average time to discharge was 6.3 days and 29% died in hospital, as median survival was only 15 days.We aimed to support discharge to home within 1 day by December 2023 for patients, wishing to die at home, referred to the end-of-life discharge team in a medium-sized district general hospital in Southwest England.In phase 1, we identified 13 people on a patient-by-patient basis, learning from obstacles. Barriers identified included sourcing of equipment, communication between teams and clunky paperwork. Median time to discharge was 2 days (range within 24 hours to

SUBMITTER: Morrison J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11141173 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature