Setting up a Step‐Down Unit

Abstract

The Step‐Down Unit was set up in September 1996 as a joint venture between Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Plymouth Community Services NHS Trust. It offered a post‐acute facility for those patients needing a short period of recovery, transfer to another facility such as a nursing home or re‐housing. This paper reports on how the unit was set up and some of the outcomes following its first year.

Citation

Savage, E. and Melville, J. (1998), "Setting up a Step‐Down Unit", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 171-175. https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018199800034