The National Health Service could potentially savemore than £1bn a year and improve the quality of care by treating more people outside hospital and in their own homes, according to a study.
Delivering sophisticated care - such as chemotherapy for cancer - at home, providing more intensive support for people with long-term conditions, and supplying intensive short-term support packages when people are discharged, also produce higher patient satisfaction, less risk of infection, fewer emergency admissions and good clinical care, says the study by Dr Foster Intelligence , the healthcare data analyst part-owned by the NHS.
