Proposals for changes to services at Eltham Community Hospital

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Proposed reconfiguration of intermediate care and a new Community Diagnostic Centre

Thank you

This phase of the engagement into the future of Eltham Community Hospital has now finished. Thank you to everyone who told us their thoughts.

The proposals were approved by the Healthier Greenwich Partnership on 28/09/22. This decision was made with a number of recommendations which were shaped by what you told us:

  • Further engagement around the Community Diagnostic Centre to start sooner than originally planned. This should start this calendar year and might involve forming a patient advisory group.
  • A communications and engagement strategy is developed and implemented to increase awareness of the services provided at Eltham Community Hospital and Home First services. We should seek to build on the community outreach carried out and aim to co-produce materials with seldom-heard groups so both the Community Diagnostic Centre and Home First are accessible to all residents.
  • Further work is carried out to develop plans to offer transport to carers and family members who don’t have transport or would find it difficult using public transport to visit Meadow View.
  • South East London Integrated Care System and Oxleas colleagues work together to establish a stakeholder reference group including people who have used intermediate care services (beds and at home) and their relatives or carers. This will monitor patient experience feedback and co-produce solutions to any issues that arise.
  • The health and care system in Greenwich should continue to support the expansion of acute inpatient beds at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
  • The health and care system in Greenwich should continue to support prevention of admission and supporting discharge, through our expanded use of Virtual Wards - which will reduce pressure on the acute inpatient beds.

Read the full Eltham Community Hospital Engagement Report.

Introduction

We are proposing some changes to the services currently at Eltham Community Hospital

Introduction
Since it opened in 2015 Eltham Community Hospital has been underused. Currently there are two GP practices based there, Musculo skeletal services (MSK), phlebotomy (blood tests), X -ray services and intermediate care beds on the site. We believe that consolidating the intermediate care beds with a similar service at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup will enable a better service to be provided at better value for money and will enable us to open a new Community Diagnostic Centre at Eltham Community Hospital which will have significant benefits for the residents of Greenwich and beyond.

Intermediate care
Intermediate care is a period of care and rehabilitation between the hospital and home, designed to help patients regain their independence and enable them to return to normal life as smoothly as possible. It is provided either in a bed or in the patient’s home. Currently at Eltham Community Hospital there is provision for two wards of 20 intermediate care beds. One of these wards is completely unused, the other is rarely full.

Currently intermediate care for Greenwich and Bexley residents are provided mainly at home, but also on two sites, with Greenwich patients mainly admitted to Eltham Community Hospital and Bexley patients mainly admitted to Meadow View ward at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. Both services are run by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. Capacity at Meadow View is also currently underused.the entrance to Queen Mary's Hospital

The proposal is that Oxleas will provide intermediate care beds for both Bexley and Greenwich patients at Meadow View, Queen Mary’s Hospital with a total of 36 beds. This number is based on a thorough review of need over the past few years. We believe this will bring a number of benefits to patients including: a better service with better rehabilitation outcomes enabling people to return home quicker; more therapists aThe gymnasium at Meadow Viewnd other staff per patient; a better environment for patients and their visitors; and better clinical support on site due to the other services at Queen Mary’s Hospital.

Community Diagnostic Centre
NHS England and Improvement have agreed to fund Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) across the country. The CDCs will mean that patients can access planned diagnostic care nearer to home without the need to attend acute hospital sites. These services are separate to urgent diagnostic scan facilities, which means shorter waiting times and a reduced risk of cancellation. They are designed to be a one stop shop for checks, scans, and tests.

Eltham Community Hospital has been identified as an ideal space for a CDC which would provide local residents access to life saving checks closer to home and enable rapid diagnosis of a range of conditions without the need to travel to an acute hospital.

This would mean that health conditions can be diagnosed earlier, faster and more accurately with easier and faster access to tests. It will reduce the demand on diagnostic services at Lewisham and Greenwich Trust, which could positively impact on hospital waiting times.

The proposed CDC will provide up to 64,339 additional scans and 27,418 blood tests per year by increasing existing capacity for ultrasound scans, blood tests and X-rays and creating new capacity for CT scans, MRI scans, respiratory and cardiac diagnostics.

It will help to reduce waiting times to meet current demand and provide an opportunity for further expansion to meet future demand.

Please read the more detailed proposal document: Proposals for changes to services at Eltham Community Hospital

Tell us what you think about the proposals

Please let us know your comments and views on the proposal by:

Proposed reconfiguration of intermediate care and a new Community Diagnostic Centre

Thank you

This phase of the engagement into the future of Eltham Community Hospital has now finished. Thank you to everyone who told us their thoughts.

The proposals were approved by the Healthier Greenwich Partnership on 28/09/22. This decision was made with a number of recommendations which were shaped by what you told us:

  • Further engagement around the Community Diagnostic Centre to start sooner than originally planned. This should start this calendar year and might involve forming a patient advisory group.
  • A communications and engagement strategy is developed and implemented to increase awareness of the services provided at Eltham Community Hospital and Home First services. We should seek to build on the community outreach carried out and aim to co-produce materials with seldom-heard groups so both the Community Diagnostic Centre and Home First are accessible to all residents.
  • Further work is carried out to develop plans to offer transport to carers and family members who don’t have transport or would find it difficult using public transport to visit Meadow View.
  • South East London Integrated Care System and Oxleas colleagues work together to establish a stakeholder reference group including people who have used intermediate care services (beds and at home) and their relatives or carers. This will monitor patient experience feedback and co-produce solutions to any issues that arise.
  • The health and care system in Greenwich should continue to support the expansion of acute inpatient beds at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
  • The health and care system in Greenwich should continue to support prevention of admission and supporting discharge, through our expanded use of Virtual Wards - which will reduce pressure on the acute inpatient beds.

Read the full Eltham Community Hospital Engagement Report.

Introduction

We are proposing some changes to the services currently at Eltham Community Hospital

Introduction
Since it opened in 2015 Eltham Community Hospital has been underused. Currently there are two GP practices based there, Musculo skeletal services (MSK), phlebotomy (blood tests), X -ray services and intermediate care beds on the site. We believe that consolidating the intermediate care beds with a similar service at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup will enable a better service to be provided at better value for money and will enable us to open a new Community Diagnostic Centre at Eltham Community Hospital which will have significant benefits for the residents of Greenwich and beyond.

Intermediate care
Intermediate care is a period of care and rehabilitation between the hospital and home, designed to help patients regain their independence and enable them to return to normal life as smoothly as possible. It is provided either in a bed or in the patient’s home. Currently at Eltham Community Hospital there is provision for two wards of 20 intermediate care beds. One of these wards is completely unused, the other is rarely full.

Currently intermediate care for Greenwich and Bexley residents are provided mainly at home, but also on two sites, with Greenwich patients mainly admitted to Eltham Community Hospital and Bexley patients mainly admitted to Meadow View ward at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. Both services are run by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. Capacity at Meadow View is also currently underused.the entrance to Queen Mary's Hospital

The proposal is that Oxleas will provide intermediate care beds for both Bexley and Greenwich patients at Meadow View, Queen Mary’s Hospital with a total of 36 beds. This number is based on a thorough review of need over the past few years. We believe this will bring a number of benefits to patients including: a better service with better rehabilitation outcomes enabling people to return home quicker; more therapists aThe gymnasium at Meadow Viewnd other staff per patient; a better environment for patients and their visitors; and better clinical support on site due to the other services at Queen Mary’s Hospital.

Community Diagnostic Centre
NHS England and Improvement have agreed to fund Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) across the country. The CDCs will mean that patients can access planned diagnostic care nearer to home without the need to attend acute hospital sites. These services are separate to urgent diagnostic scan facilities, which means shorter waiting times and a reduced risk of cancellation. They are designed to be a one stop shop for checks, scans, and tests.

Eltham Community Hospital has been identified as an ideal space for a CDC which would provide local residents access to life saving checks closer to home and enable rapid diagnosis of a range of conditions without the need to travel to an acute hospital.

This would mean that health conditions can be diagnosed earlier, faster and more accurately with easier and faster access to tests. It will reduce the demand on diagnostic services at Lewisham and Greenwich Trust, which could positively impact on hospital waiting times.

The proposed CDC will provide up to 64,339 additional scans and 27,418 blood tests per year by increasing existing capacity for ultrasound scans, blood tests and X-rays and creating new capacity for CT scans, MRI scans, respiratory and cardiac diagnostics.

It will help to reduce waiting times to meet current demand and provide an opportunity for further expansion to meet future demand.

Please read the more detailed proposal document: Proposals for changes to services at Eltham Community Hospital

Tell us what you think about the proposals

Please let us know your comments and views on the proposal by:

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  • If you, your relative or the person you care for needed intermediate care after some time in an acute hospital would you prefer for them to receive this support at home or in a hospital bed?

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  • Do you think there are any disadvantages or negative impacts to our proposals to consolidate intermediate care beds for Greenwich residents at Meadow View, Queen Mary’s Hospital?

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  • If you needed diagnostic tests like a CT scan, MRI scan, ultrasound, respiratory, cardiac or blood tests would you choose to have this done at Eltham Community Hospital if it meant a shorter waiting time?

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