{"id":7412,"date":"2023-06-15T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:49:56","slug":"fast-track-discharge-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/2023\/06\/15\/fast-track-discharge-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Track Discharge (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Type of publication:<\/strong><br \/>\nService improvement case study<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author(s):<\/strong><br \/>\n*Rebecca Martin (Therapy Operational Manager for Inpatient Therapies PRH, ESD and Head of Occupational Therapy), *Dr Emma Corbett (Consultant in Palliative Medicine)\/ *Ruth Walker (Macmillan Palliative Care Cancer Nurse Specialist)\/ *Rachael Roebuck and *Jennifer Russell (Discharge Liaison Nurse)\/ *Kate Robinson and *Jane Carter (Occupational Therapist)\/ *Alison Jones (Nurse Specialist Palliative Care)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong><br \/>\nSaTH Improvement Hub, January 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMART Aim:<\/strong><br \/>\nOpportunities for improvement were identified in the Fast Track patient pathway (patients with a life expectancy of 3 months or less). A pilot was carried out to understand if the availability of a dedicated EoLC Occupational Therapist improved patient discharge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Fast-Track-Discharge-Rebecca-Martin-et-al.pdf\">Link to PDF poster<\/a> [no password required]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type of publication: Service improvement case study Author(s): *Rebecca Martin (Therapy Operational Manager for Inpatient Therapies PRH, ESD and Head of Occupational Therapy), *Dr Emma Corbett (Consultant in Palliative Medicine)\/ *Ruth Walker (Macmillan Palliative Care Cancer Nurse Specialist)\/ *Rachael Roebuck<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/2023\/06\/15\/fast-track-discharge-2023\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fast Track Discharge (2023)<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[1029,731,89,1032,1025],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-publication","tag-1029","tag-discharge-planning","tag-end-of-life-care","tag-occupational-therapy","tag-service-improvement-case-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}