Care comes to patient in the future hospital

A new report from the Future Hospital Commission recommends that, in future, care should come to the acutely ill patient, rather than the patient being moved around the hospital. This is one of 50 recommendations aimed at improving care for acute medical patients in Future Hospital: Caring for medical patients, the report from the commission established by the Royal College of Physicians, which puts the patient experience and the concept of clinician citizenship’ back into the very heart of healthcare. This is matched with a radical restructuring of the wards where acutely ill patients are treated, and a new organisational and management structure whose responsibilities for acutely ill medical patients will stretch out from the hospital into the wider community, developing the idea of a local healthcare system. The report recommends: For patients – a new focus on patient experience, principles of patient care, communication, information and responsibility