Our Homeward Bound Service is a pioneering service to get people home from hospital or to prevent their admission. We do this by carrying out practical tasks within the home, much like the family would do but in cases where there may not be family to help.
We now have funding from the Ipswich and East Suffolk and the West Suffolk CCGs but at the centre of this service is the experience of Lofty Heights CIC carrying out this work at the request of individuals for the five years prior as a part of our range of odd jobs.
The foundation of the service is that it is cheaper for us to step in and carry out the work than it is to keep a person in hospital, or admit them, and then get medical staff to carry out the practical work required.
Our standard service is up to four hours help. This would enable us to: move a bed downstairs, create downstairs living, carry out targeted cleaning jobs that focus on the main areas; kitchen, bathroom and main living area. It will often include being present in an empty property to accept delivery of medical equipment essential to a patient’s return home, like beds, commodes and hoists.
We do not take anything away and if items need to be disposed of this will involve a 'bulky waste collection' from the local council and is to be organised by the patient or their family/support worker.
Not all problems can be resolved within that four-hour target. We have some flexibility to extend the help we can provide but this is based on a case by case assessment.
We now have funding from the Ipswich and East Suffolk and the West Suffolk CCGs but at the centre of this service is the experience of Lofty Heights CIC carrying out this work at the request of individuals for the five years prior as a part of our range of odd jobs.
The foundation of the service is that it is cheaper for us to step in and carry out the work than it is to keep a person in hospital, or admit them, and then get medical staff to carry out the practical work required.
Our standard service is up to four hours help. This would enable us to: move a bed downstairs, create downstairs living, carry out targeted cleaning jobs that focus on the main areas; kitchen, bathroom and main living area. It will often include being present in an empty property to accept delivery of medical equipment essential to a patient’s return home, like beds, commodes and hoists.
We do not take anything away and if items need to be disposed of this will involve a 'bulky waste collection' from the local council and is to be organised by the patient or their family/support worker.
Not all problems can be resolved within that four-hour target. We have some flexibility to extend the help we can provide but this is based on a case by case assessment.