'The ins and outs of emergency admissions '

February 2011.

Changes to funding will make it in the interests of hospitals for patients to be discharged only when ready and safe for them to do so. With costs of up to £43m for local NHS Trusts to treat patients readmitted to hospital within 30 days of discharge, an AHSN-sponsored seminar, explored how health and social care teams can work together to achieve effective discharge and effective reablement to improve outcomes for patients.

Please find presentations and breakout session notes from the day below.

• William Vineall, Department of Health deputy director of social care policy and innovation.  'Re-ablement'

• Dr Simon de Lusignan, reader in primary care at St George's, University of London.  'Routine data and health outcomes group'

• Dr Asif Qasim, consultant cardiologist at Croydon Health Services.  'Acute admission, discharge and early re-admission'

• Dominic Conlin, managing director for the South West London Acute Comissioning Unit.  '2011/12 operating framework: SWL ACU proposed approach to 30 day re-admissions'

• Christine Edwards, director of the Institute of Leadership and Management in Health at Kingston University.  'Learning sets'

• Notes from breakout session ' Social care supporting patient choice and effective discharge'

• Notes from breakout session 'Learning from data'