hospital at home poster
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The Midlothian Enhanced Rapid Response Team (MERRIT) has now been opera9onal for over a year now, since star9ng in the summer of 2014. This poster shows some of the data collected in the last 12 months, star9ng from September 2014, for the Hospital at Home component of the team. Once again, we thank NHS Lothian and Midlothian Council for their con9nued
The Hospital at Home team are part of the wider MERRIT service and aim to offer an alterna9ve to hospital admission for frail older pa9ents. Although designed as a service for the over 75s, many of our pa9ents are younger than this and we are happy to discuss any poten9al pa9ents via the referral number 0131 270 8890. We can offer daily visits to pa9ents to undertake assessment and observa9ons, adjust medica9on, give advice and support to them and their families and to make recommenda9ons on ongoing management. We can give intravenous medica9on when necessary, for example furosemide or once daily an9bio9cs and we can administer subcutaneous or intravenous fluids when appropriate. Our pa9ents have access to the same range of Radiology and Cardiac Physiology tes9ng that the tradi9onal hospital inpa9ents do. In fact, many pa9ents do not require invasive management, but do benefit from the daily input from the highly trained nurse prac99oners on the
in addi9on to the fully integrated Rapid Response Team of OTs, Physios, Pharmacist, administrators and care
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Referral demographics by age and sex: