During cross-border health emergencies, health and care services may be overwhelmed by high numbers of patients requiring unplanned care. Delays and backlogs in regular care, due to the stretched healthcare system, leave millions of patients with regular care needs unattended, resulting in disastrous healthcare outcomes. If poor healthcare outcomes across the population are to be avoided, healthcare systems must become more resilient and flexible and allow for rapid changes in the care delivery services. RAPIDE aims to develop, validate and demonstrate a portfolio of tools that enable healthcare systems to build in robustness of decisions, resilience of the healthcare professionals and patients and flexibility in the modalities of care delivery, thereby maintaining access to regular care during health emergencies.
RAPIDE emphasises opportunities for optimising in-hospital care and relocating care from hospitals to community and home environments without losing care quality. The project focuses on two linked challenges 1. Identifying and predicting how much care, and which care, needs to be moved along the care chain; 2. Identifying and verifying effective, feasible and acceptable ways to make this reconfiguration of care a reality. This will be achieved by (a) resource modelling which builds comprehensive foresight and forecasting solutions and links them to patient flow optimization, along the whole chain of care, (b) selecting and implementing the best available tools to deliver regular care in new ways.  RAPIDE will be co-designed and co-validated with stakeholders. A Table Top Exercise and extensive communication and dissemination will raise awareness of the project’s successes.
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