Introducing the Hospital at Home Knowledge and Skills Development Framework
Hospital at Home (H@H) is a short-term, targeted intervention that provides a level of acute hospital care in an individual’s own home that is equivalent to that provided within a hospital.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) has established a programme to support the implementation of H@H, including work with a mixture of NHS boards and health and social care partnerships.
Our Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professions (NMAHP) directorate recently worked with HIS and the H@H national stakeholder group to co-produce the Hospital at Home Knowledge and Skills Development Framework.
The framework is for healthcare support workers, nurses and allied health professionals to help identify the knowledge and skills required to deliver high quality acute hospital level services at home.
The H@H framework uses the four pillars of practice from the NMAHP development framework to demonstrate the knowledge and skills required by practitioners working at career levels 3-8.
It is anticipated this framework will:
- complement the current developments within hospital at home services
- be used as a live document to identify areas of development for healthcare practitioners being recruited to or working within these services.
- help ensure team members within the services have the knowledge and skills required to provide high quality services that will meet the needs of their local population safely
The development of services is likely to emerge as health and care requirements change, therefore the hospital at home framework can be used to determine what might be required both now and in the future.
The framework can be accessed via the H@H information hub on Turas Learn.
To support the implementation of the framework HIS and NES will be hosting an online information session on Tuesday 22 August 1 – 2pm. The session aims to introduce the framework and highlight how it can be used in practice to support the development of hospital at home services.
For more information please contact his.communitycare@nhs.scot
July, 25 2023