This case study explores community virtual wards based in GP practices within South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Community virtual wards were first introduced by Devon Primary Care Trust in 2010 to proactively identify those at high risk of emergency admissions using a predictive risk tool and to ...
This case study looks at integrated teams of health and social care professionals, known as community resource teams (CRTs), who work to co-ordinate care for people living at home in the largely rural county of Pembrokeshire. This model of care is one aspect of a wider strategic programme of integrated ...
This case study is part of a research project undertaken by The King’s Fund and funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation in the USA to compare five successful UK-based models of care co-ordination (see Appendix 1 for methods used to collect the study data). The aim of each case ...