East Lothian Hospital at Home (H@H)
Hospital at Home is a service that provides acute, hospital-level care by healthcare professionals in a home context for a condition that would otherwise require acute hospital inpatient care
Opening Times
Each day (including weekends): 8am-8pm
Contact Number:
Flow Centre: Option 1 then Option 4
Referral Criteria:
- Resident of East Lothian
- Patient/Carer/Family agree to referral
- Patient would otherwise require admission to hospital
- Safe for assessment at home or homely setting
Exclusion Criteria:
- Acute stroke
- Suspected fracture
- Surgical presentation including abdominal pain
- Cardiac chest pain
- Social issues only
- Acute exacerbation of asthma
- Suspected DVT/PE
All referrals are considered on a case-by-case basis. If unsure, please ask the Flow Centre to put you through to the East Lothian H@H team.
Other Information
Please do not send a SCI Gateway referral unless the referral has already been accepted as the team may not see it and the referral will not be acted on.
Please send a SCI Gateway referral once your patient has been accepted as we do not have access to primary care IT systems.
The referral pathway post acceptance is: ELCH > Geriatric Medicine > EL Hospital at Home
See above for Referral Criteria and Exclusion Criteria
All referrals are considered on a case-by-case basis. If unsure, please ask the Flow Centre to put you through to the East Lothian H@H team
How to refer:
Referrals are by phone in the first instance: Call Flow Centre: Option 1 then Option 4
Please do not send a SCI Gateway referral unless the referral has already been accepted as the team may not see it and the referral will not be acted on.
Please send a SCI Gateway referral once your patient has been accepted as we do not have access to primary care IT systems.
The referral pathway post acceptance is: ELCH > Geriatric Medicine > EL Hospital at Home
