COVID-19 health management service to care for patients at home

NHS England is commissioning a “COVID-19 home treatment service” of primary and community healthcare for self-secluding patients.

It is introducing “urgent primary care services to patients diagnosed with COVID-19” who are self-secluded at home. The service will care for patients’ symptoms relating to COVID-19 as well as other conditions until they are discharged from home isolation and referred back to their GP.

“There is likely to be a gradual handover of patients to CHMS providers as they come onstream to provide the service,” according to a letter from NHSE’s primary care directors sent to GPs today.

“As soon as the new service is up and running in your area, your clinical commissioning group will be able to tell you who will be providing care for patients in your locality.”

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Source: HSJ, 11 March 2020