Near patient testing to improve COPD care and reduce admissions
Galway COPD Outreach Service - Respiratory Integrated Care -Integrated Care programme Chronic Disease - Galway City Hub
Project aim:
To provide a new pathway where non-life threatening COPD exacerbations can go through a rapid assessment style COPD review in the AMU with POCT and follow-up with COPD outreach and within community specialist ambulatory hubs.
Share to Care: optimising leg ulcer care
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Project aim:
To pilot the use of a digital platform to enable the sharing of an agreed set of documents pertaining to the patients’ leg ulcer treatment between the community TVN and hospital based team.
Integrated care programme for older persons vestibular assessment and rehabilitation service
HSE Mid West Community Healthcare
Project aim:
To integrate a vestibular assessment and rehabilitation programme into the existing Mid West ICPOP falls assessment services. The service will be expanded beyond the standard delivery which is currently delivered by specialist trained physiotherapists only. This expansion will include vestibular assessment in our service by advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and medical staff in addition to our senior physiotherapy staff.
CAS (Centrifuge at Source) Hub
Tallaght University Hospital
Project aim:
The project will disrupt one key element in the total testing process, by moving the critical centrifugation step out of the laboratory and into the GP practice CAS (Centrifugation At Source).
Integrated primary care OT-led hand and wrist clinic
St James’s Hospital
Project aim:
To deliver integrated scheduled patient care between Saint James’s hospital and primary care (Community Healthcare Organisation Dublin, Kildare and West Wicklow) Occupational Therapists for GP referred patients with hand and wrist pathology.
Skinnovate: transforming how routine skin conditions are managed across the healthcare system
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Project aim:
To provide a practical, high impact support to GPs and others in the Community in the short term as well as resolving the inadequacies and challenges in training at undergraduate and postgraduate level for non-Dermatologists, thus addressing the problem into the longer term.
Improving heart failure management in the community with LUS
HSE Dublin North Integrated Care Centre for Chronic Disease (affiliated with Beaumont Hospital)
Project aim:
To enable Heart Failure Advanced Nurse Practitioners to deliver Lung Ultrasound (LUS) during routine patient assessments.
ENT-egrate clinic: GP-led specialist services with acute hospital supports
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Project aim:
This project seeks to establish a new model of care for Rhinology patients- in the first instance in the form of the “ENTegrate Clinic”: a specialist Rhinology service that is led by a GP with an extended role in ENT with support from the Rhinology Consultant in Mater University Hospital.
Community Rehabilitation Inpatient Specialist Programme (CRISP)
Peamount Healthcare
Project aim:
To provide direct access to short-term in-patient rehabilitation for older adults who are experiencing functional decline or increasing frailty in the community. The project plans to enhance CRISP’s diagnostic and treatment capacity with our new project ‘Harnessing Technology to Augment Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in CRISP Admissions.
Staying fit for the future - capturing real time attendance data
Cork Primary Community Care Physio
Project aim:
To capture weekly attendance at the Staying Fit for the Future classes to bring about a cultural change in exercise and also to capture this data as the classes continue to grow. The solution could be brought about with some Design input.