Decision details

North West London Hospital Discharge - Joint Working Agreement

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Information governance agreements drawn up amongst WLA partners to underpin on-going alignment and integration of the hospital discharge service. This will build on the current hospital discharge model that operates across the three boroughs and will initially extend to Brent and Ealing hospital discharge services. The agreements facilitate the move to a hosted model and allow joint working across the boroughs including representation of WLA partners at multi-disciplinary meetings on hospital wards, communication with patient’s and families who are admitted to WLA hospitals and completing assessments as part of the hospital discharge process on behalf of WLA partners.

Decision:

To approve the WLA (West London Alliance) Hospital Discharge Joint Working Agreement, WLA Hospital Discharge Data Processing Agreement and the Section 113 that underpins the joint hospital discharge service the boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the City of Westminster, Brent and Ealing.

Report author: Stella Baillie

Publication date: 05/09/2017

Date of decision: 04/09/2017

Decided at meeting: 04/09/2017 - Cabinet

Effective from: 11/09/2017

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