Calderdale CCG Covid Positive Enhanced Care Beds

It is not feasible to discharge COVID positive patients back to their normal place of residence including care homes for risk of the infection spreading. Our strategy of not discharging back to homes has seen a low number of deaths and spread of infection at the height of the pandemic. This is approach is consistent with the Calderdale CCG submission in the NHSE Evaluation of Care Home Support Framework. A separate, additional bed capacity is therefore required to support this cohort enabling: • rapid discharge o...