TY - JOUR T1 - Increasing the acuity of community services: rapid response JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - s29 LP - s29 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.3-2-s29 VL - 3 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Christopher Bell AU - Ruth Hartley AU - Selina Lim AU - Elizabeth Heitz AU - Aisling Vaugh Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/Suppl_2/s29.abstract N2 - An integrated care organisation in south London reviewed unplanned admissions. Many admissions in individuals over the age of 65 years had short length of stays (under 2 days), suggesting that they possibly could have been managed out of the hospital with the appropriate support.Following consultation with existing teams and service user feedback, the acute trust, CCG and local authority collaborated in developing a service model that would ensure that patients’ needs were met within the community in … ER -