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in 2015. It is a partnership involving Sutton

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, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Sutton Health Community Services,

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, the

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, Age UK Sutton, St Raphael's Hospice, Alzheimer's Society and Sutton Care for the Voluntary Sector. It has established a number of initiatives intended to keep residents of the 70 care homes in the borough out of hospital, or to get out of hospital more easily. These include regular named-GP visits to local care homes to provide healthcare, health and wellbeing reviews and end-of-life planning. It claims credit for a 10% drop in visits to A&E. Training is provided for care home staff. A Red Bag Scheme has improved transfers between homes and hospitals by ensuring that the patients clothes, notes, and false teeth if necessary accompany them back and forward. The draft

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for south west London proposes to roll out the model across six boroughs with a population of around 1.4 million.

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