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Amar Shah, Auzewell Chitewe, Azad Cadinouche, BMJ Quality, ELFT, Kajanesh Ratneswaran, Kehkashan Khan, Marco Aurelio, Sylvester LaminReducing bed occupancy and length of stay on a functional older adults’ psychiatric ward (BMJ Quality)
A quality improvement project was initiated on Ivory ward, a functional older adult psychiatric inpatient ward at Newham Centre for Mental Health, part of the East London NHS Foundation Trust. The project was started by staff on the ward after it had come to their attention that their ward had the highest bed occupancy and length of stay across similar wards in the trust. The mean bed occupancy in the 9 months before the project started was 87.7%. The mean length of stay on the ward in the 9 months before the project started was 70 days. The team used the model for improvement, which is the trust’s methodology of choice for quality improvement projects, to reduce bed occupancy and length of stay.
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