Community IV therapy service
Intravenous news: A nurse-led community IV therapy service at a trust in Cheshire has saved the NHS over one million in just three years. The service, run by nurses at Warrington PCT, provides an alternative to hospital admission by enabling nurses to administer IV therapy to patients within their own homes.
Nurses involved in the service have shared their latest audit data with Nursing Times. Of the 751 patients treated by the ‘admissions avoidance’ service between September 2005 and November 2008, only 27 had to be admitted to hospital – just 3.6% of the total number of patients referred to the service during that time.
This resulted in over 7,000 bed days saved. At a cost of around £2,353 per patient for IV therapy treatment in hospital – compared to just £886 for patients using the IV service – the trust saved almost £1,500 per patient.
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