Yorkshire and Humber Adult Critical Care Transfer Service
The three Yorkshire & Humber Adult Critical Care ODNs (West, South & North Yorkshire) have received funding to establish a Yorkshire & Humber Adult Critical Care Transfer Service.
The service is funded to run from the 18th January until the 31st March and will be known as The Yorkshire and Humber Adult Critical Care Transfer Service (ACCTS@EMBRACE).
The main function of this service will be to provide a seven days a week 10 am to 10pm, Consultant led inter facility decompression/non-clinical transfer service for Adult Critical Care patients within the three Yorkshire and the Humber Adult Critical Care Networks.
This service will not support deliver time critical transfers which will continue to be the responsibility of the referring hospitals in conjunction with the two Acute Ambulance Service providers serving the Yorkshire and Humber, YAS & EMAS. Similarly the service will not be able to meet all requests for decompression / non-clinical transfers and Trusts will need to retain the ability to undertake these transfers when required.
All requests for decompression transfers will be discussed and prioritised by the ODN team each day. Once transfers are agreed the referring trust must email the patients clinical details to ACCTS.Embrace@nhs.net by 10.00 hours, using the ACCTS referral form below and emailed to embrace.transport@nhs.net
The service is funded to run from the 18th January until the 31st March and will be known as The Yorkshire and Humber Adult Critical Care Transfer Service (ACCTS@EMBRACE).
The main function of this service will be to provide a seven days a week 10 am to 10pm, Consultant led inter facility decompression/non-clinical transfer service for Adult Critical Care patients within the three Yorkshire and the Humber Adult Critical Care Networks.
This service will not support deliver time critical transfers which will continue to be the responsibility of the referring hospitals in conjunction with the two Acute Ambulance Service providers serving the Yorkshire and Humber, YAS & EMAS. Similarly the service will not be able to meet all requests for decompression / non-clinical transfers and Trusts will need to retain the ability to undertake these transfers when required.
All requests for decompression transfers will be discussed and prioritised by the ODN team each day. Once transfers are agreed the referring trust must email the patients clinical details to ACCTS.Embrace@nhs.net by 10.00 hours, using the ACCTS referral form below and emailed to embrace.transport@nhs.net
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Critical Care Transfers
It is vital that critically ill or injured patients are treated rapidly in an acute hospital in order to stabilise them or limit their injuries. However, there are several instances when such management may be followed by further (secondary) transfer to another acute hospital:
- Clinical transfer– when the facilities needed for definitive treatment are not available at the initial hospital.
- Capacity transfer– when the initial hospital has inadequate equipment, bed capacity, staffing or monitoring to provide the necessary care.
- Repatriation–highly specialised hospitals may need to transfer patients to ensure they can treat the next patient who needs their specialist facilities. Patients may also be moved back to hospitals nearer to their home and family. In these cases, patients will have had their specialist treatment, are almost always stable and the transfer may involve a step-down in the level of their care.
Critical Care Safe Transfer TrainingUnfortunately due to COVID 19 Transfer Training has been cancelled for 2020.
Please keep checking for Transfer Training in 2021. West Yorkshire Critical Care Transfer Training HandbookClick to download a copy of the West Yorkshire Critical Care Safe Transfer Handbook
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WYCCODN Critical Care Transfer Guidance
The Intra Hospital Transfer Form can be downloaded and printed from the above file.
For additional A3 Inter Hospital Transfer Forms please contact samantha.rogers3@nhs.net who will happily send some to you. | ||||||||