Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH)
EHCH Team - What We Do
The EHCH team delivers care to permanent residents in CQC-registered homes across Southport and Formby. The team delivers:
- A comprehensive, holistic assessment - reviewed annually
- Learning disability annual reviews and health action planning/reviews
-to individuals identified as living with a learning disability. - Implementation and annual review of personalised care and support plans
- Anticipatory/advanced planning,including:
-treatment escalation planning (TEP)
-ceilings of treatment (CoT)
-decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Structured medication reviews
- Identification of patients who require addition to a GP's 'Gold Standards Framework' - a system for highlighting those who may, at some stage, require additional support. Such patients are reviewed at the monthly in-practice multi-disciplinary Gold Standards Framework (GSF) meetings.
- Education for homes
- Referral to other services (i.e.: falls prevention teams)
- Home ward round
- Multi-disciplinary team input
- Review +/- reassessment after patients have had a hospital admission
- Review and assessments for any residents home staff may be concerned about
Important: The EHCH Team Does Not Deliver
An emergency response to acutely unwell or deteriorating end-of-life (i.e.: GSF Red) patients, nor do they deliver day-to-day GP care
Information for Relatives / Advocates
Further information about what the team will do for your relative is available via the link below.
Who Can Refer to EHCH
Any care home member of staff -Clinicians in a patient's own GP surgery (GPs, PAs, ACPs) - where there is a specific need (i.e.: for non-acute advanced planning)
Who Should Be Referred to EHCH
All new and permanent residents - Any residents of concern
The Importance of Enhancing Health in Care Homes
The NHS long term plan is committed to providing the framework for enhanced health in care homes.
The guide for care-homes may be of particular use to you / your team and can be accessed here.
The video links below highlight how we can work together for better care - learning from the EHCH vanguards.