Health and care organisations across Staffordshire have come together to agree a plan to help residents safe this winter. The plan includes developing ways of preventing the need to go to hospital and getting home as soon as it is safe to do so.
One such measure is the temporary opening of 40 ‘discharge-to-assess’ beds at Cheadle Community Hospital over the winter. This is being done in a phased way, with the first phase taking place this week when patients on Haywood Hospital’s Grange Ward will be transferred to Cheadle Hospital.
This will create extra capacity to enable patients to be discharged from Royal Stoke University Hospital in the most timely way. The beds at Cheadle will be managed and run by Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
