Acute Clinical Team – ACT
Acute Clinical Team (ACT)
The ACT sits within the Community Resource Team in Bridgend, and provides a Frailty Crisis and hospital avoidance service across the whole of Bridgend County Borough.
Our team of Consultant Physicians, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Community Nurses, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists provide a patient centred multi-professional approach to clinical assessment and medical based care for adults aged 18 years and over. Individuals experiencing a frailty or functional crisis as a result of an acute illness, or for those individuals who are experiencing frequent or recurrent falls will be offered a multi-professional holistic assessment in the format of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA).
Recognised as the ‘Gold Standard for assessing Frailty’ by the British Geriatric Society, the CGA provides an in-depth assessment of an individual’s physical, mental, social, functional and environmental wellbeing. With this multi-professional approach, we aim to manage medical causative or contributing factors, minimise risk, improve safety and promote independence and well-being.
The ACT are primely placed to support early hospital discharge providing the appropriate enhanced clinical support to allow recovery at home and promote wellbeing avoiding the unnecessary complications experienced as a consequence of prolonged hospital admissions.
The ACT team are well placed to signpost and refer on to appropriate services and other health care professionals for ongoing intervention. The wider CRT Multi-professional Team include dieticians, speech and language therapists, specialist pharmacy technicians, a sensory team, telecare services and care staff as available. Specialist clinical referrals as required are made to speciality teams within secondary care for the continuation of care.
Exclusion criteria:
- Patients aged 17 years or younger
- Acute chest pain
- Acute shortness of breath
- Suspected fractures
- Major haemorrhage
- New stroke/FAST positive symptoms
How to refer to the service?
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Health Care Professional ONLY Referrals:
For Health Professionals referring a patient experiencing an acute frailty crisis or with an acute clinical concern, can make contact directly to our team of Advanced Clinical practitioners via telephone. This professional to professional referral ensures the patients suitability for the service and identifies the nature of intervention required and priority of assessment.
Telephone:
ACT HOT Phone: 07442 939142
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Public and Health Care Professionals
Members of the general public (patient, family, carers, Health Care professionals etc) and for referral of a non-urgent matter, can refer to the Early Prevention and Intervention Hub (EIPH) via telephone or via email referral.
Referrals are triaged by EIPH, and all identified patient needs are assessed either via telephone or through face to face assessments and signposted to the relevant and most appropriate service within the Common Resource Team or our Third Sector agencies.
Telephone: 01656 642279
Email: CRTfaxonly@bridgend.gov.uk
