Service Development
NHS Oxfordshire is reshaping community health services to better meet patient needs. Plans include better integration of social and health care services to reduce delays and achieve a better balance between care in hospitals and care at home.
We are working with Oxfordshire County Council’s Social and Community Services Department to improve and integrate the way we deliver services and jointly provide social and health care in the community in order to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. There is both a strong clinical reason for enabling people to be cared for in their homes wherever possible, and also a financial case to reduce the amount we spend on admitting patients to acute hospitals.
A countywide Urgent Care Network for health and social care is looking at redesigning services to make them work better for patients: reducing delays and achieving a better balance between care in hospitals and care at home. Proposals include better integration of social and health care services.
Oxfordshire County Council and NHS Oxfordshire have been reviewing children's community therapy services. The review was particularly directed at the speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy services for children and young people that are commissioned from Community Health Oxfordshire. The purpose of the review was to understand how these therapy services fit within the bigger picture of services provided to children and young people and to identify opportunities to improve the way these services are commissioned. Read the response to the Consultation (April 2010)