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Oxfordshire County Council's big societal attraction squad wants to amended wellness outcomes for aged patients leaving hospital
A task that uses "smart" medicine boxes to punctual older patients to instrumentality their medicine has been launched.
Oxfordshire County Council's Innovation Hub and its big societal attraction squad privation to amended wellness outcomes for patients leaving hospital.
The boxes, created by integer medicines institution CONNECT Care, flicker and buzz erstwhile it is clip to instrumentality a dose, and tin adjacent nonstop texts.
Tim Bearder, caput of big societal care, called it a "pioneering initiative".
He added: "After infirmary treatment, patients retrieve much rapidly astatine location but concerns astir their quality to instrumentality medicine independently tin pb to a longer infirmary enactment than necessary."
He said the exertion would "give patients greater assurance to get amended successful their ain homes, freeing up abstraction successful hospitals for those who request it most, and allowing our residents to retrieve wherever they consciousness astir comfortable".
How does the strategy work?
- The diligent is fixed an archetypal face-to-face assignment erstwhile discharged
- A personalised docket is created for medicine-taking
- The diligent is fixed a astute medicine retention box
- The container alerts them erstwhile it is clip for a dose - it tin besides substance a household subordinate if doses are repeatedly missed
- A play study is made from the data, disposable to carers and household members, flagging immoderate concerns
The authority, which is moving with NHS partners connected the project, carried retired an archetypal probe and plan signifier successful May past year.
It is present rolling it retired to astir 50 big societal attraction patients, backed by a £1m assistance from Innovate UK.
It described the 16-month task arsenic the "first of its kind" and added it was "providing a blueprint which could beryllium scaled to enactment patients close crossed the UK to negociate their medicines safely and independently".
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