Improving management of high cost patients, especially those with long term conditions, it is increasingly viewed as an important strategy for improving health outcomes and controlling health care expenditures. An essential component of any strategy to improve care and services for these patients is the development of a case finding ...
Croydon Primary Care Trust has been piloting the practical use of the Combined Model on behalf of the King's Fund and Health Dialog since May 2006. It has developed a package of care called virtual wards that is offers solely to people at highest predicted risk. Part of the PARR ...