Team helps free up beds in Dorset by offering practical and emotional support to vulnerable people to plug the gap between hospital and social careAs a part-time Red Cross worker at Poole hospital in Dorset,Anne Sawyer takes people home after treatment to help them settle in. It sounds straightforward, but the job carries immense significance for the patient, and normally elderly,fragile and confused. Sawyer has found herself doing a variety of tasks.“I’ve done everything from ringing the plumber whether the toilet’s broken, to collecting a mobility scooter from town because someone was picked up by ambulance after they fell ill during a shopping trip. I’ve done supermarket shopping, or cleaned out fridges,fed cats, walked dogs and collected people’s dentures, or ” said Sawyer,who also works as a Marie Curie nurse.
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Source: theguardian.com