The Trusted Assessor Scheme, which is run by the Havering Care Association, is a staff resource based at Queen’s and King George hospitals that carries out assessments on behalf of local residential care homes and care homes with nursing services, against the set criteria for admission into these homes. The scheme focuses on care homes providing services for our older frail populations and excludes those homes providing specialist and children’s services. The service covers all care homes in the three BHR boroughs.
The Trusted Assessor Scheme went live across all three of our boroughs on 12 December, following a successful 12-month pilot in Havering. The purpose of the scheme is to support and facilitate discharges from hospital to local care homes, so avoiding unnecessary delays from both King George and Queen’s hospitals, improving patient outcomes.
Trusted Assessor Scheme now live across Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge
A scheme that works to help older frail patients to be discharged safely and more quickly from our local hospitals is now working with care homes across Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge.
A trusted assessor model for care home transfers is a key element of best practice in reducing delays to transfers of care between a hospital bed and a care home. The Havering Trusted Assessor model (that is now live across BHR) provides a joined-up approach and essential link between the care home sector and hospital discharge processes, by gaining the confidence of care home staff and management, plus a presence on the hospital wards that has become familiar and approachable.
For more information about the Trusted Assessor Scheme please refer to this newsletter, alternatively please contact the service directly on: