1 CASE STUDY Community Services Background This midland-based NHS Trust wanted to relieve the strain on its Acute services by discharging patients from hospital beds and moving activity into Community services. The services under scope included District Nursing, the Community Intermediate Care Team (CICT), Therapy Teams, Foot Health, and Children’s Services. In the past there has been no knowledge of the capacity or a forecasted demand of each team within the service. The spread of resources is based on historic information, and not on activity levels. Meridian was invited by the Executive team to conduct an analysis of a number of service lines and looked at the existing capacity, demand, and current management system of each service. Study Findin

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