Question

What are the advantages of home visits, compared to consultation at the office?

Problem description

We still organise consultations at the hospital  unit on a regular basis

Impact - effect

Anyway, these consultations are placing the patient strongly in the patient role.  In this way we miss other roles, and the necessary human contact that provides a basis for confidence, which is necessary for working together in the professional relationship

To do

To involve the system “on the spot” more frequently, and using home visits to put the patient in his own context, and to find more points of actions to make arrangements and to work with.  We’ve learned that the AHTT-Stoke is almost exclusively doing home visits, and we have experienced the added value of these visits.  We have noticed that only in specific situations/cases the safety of the team members is a contraindication

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

critical success factors for starting up and further development/deployment

Reference -  contact

Luk De Becker, Tine Peeters (équipe 2a- Leuven-Tervuren)

Mobile team

2A

Project

Leuven-Tervuren

Intership abroad - place

Stoke-on-Trent

Date

June 2013