Intervention allows more complex patient conditions to be managed at home

More complex medical conditions can now be managed closer to home with opening of the North Lakes Intervention Clinic.

A new North Lakes intervention clinic has been established to support Hospital in the Home (HITH) patients with more complex health care needs and deliver safe clinical care locally.

HITH Nurse Unit Manager Rajni Nair said the intervention clinic (H-INT clinic) at North Lakes Health Precinct was developed to safely support home hospital patients with more complex health care needs and reduce unnecessary trips to Emergency Departments.

“The H-INT clinic is being utilised for additional clinical activities, complex interventions and monitoring, one being scheduled face-to-face patient reviews of HITH patients by Registrars,” Rajni said.

“This initiative is having immediate benefit and is improving the service’s ability to monitor and intervene where required to deliver the right clinical care locally at the right time.”