SIMTEGR8

The SIMTEGR8 project came about in December 2014 when Leicestershire County Council (LCC) and Healthwatch Leicestershire approached Loughborough University, and the SIMUL8 Corporation, to discuss the evaluation of four new integrated care pathways to reduce emergency admissions in Leicestershire. The resulting partnership was successful in attracting a research grant from Loughborough University's Enterprise fund to conduct the evaluation project during 2015/16... The 1-year project adopted and modified the SimLean approach to evaluate the ways that emergency admissions can be reduced and to help improve the patient journey through the four selected interventions. The pathways that were examined were part of Leicestershire's Better Care Fund (BCF) programme for 2015/16 and were community based interventions designed to avoid unnecessary emergency hospital admissions for vulnerable, frail and elderly people.

Primary location: Loughborough United Kingdom