TY - JOUR T1 - 2-year impact of an Older People Short Stay Unit team working across emergency areas in the over-75s JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 4 LP - 5 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s4 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Radcliffe Lisk AU - Paula Watts, AU - Ruth O'Sullivan AU - Maryln Pagkalinawan AU - Kristine Reyes AU - Zoe Foan AU - Charlotte Spencer AU - Francesca Rawlings AU - David Sills AU - Laura Clancy AU - Kelly Stevenson AU - Clarence Chikusu Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/4.abstract N2 - It is recognised that the older person, once admitted to hospital, frequently has a longer length of stay (LOS) and occupies more bed days than other patients, so we focused on reducing the LOS for the over-75s.We set out to reduce LOS for over-75s using plan–do–study–act (PDSA) cycles that involved amalgamating the existing older persons’ assessment and liaison (OPAL) team with the acute therapy team with senior therapy presence in emergency areas, forming the Older People Short Stay Unit (OPSSU) team (November 2015); created an OPSSU with 13 beds (December 2015) expanding to 29 beds (October 2016), patient information leaflets emphasising the ethos of the importance of getting … ER -