Avoiding Hospital Admissions (ITHAcA)

The Avoiding Hospital Admissions Health Integration Team (ITHAcA HIT) aimed to reduce avoidable hospital admissions across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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This means the HIT is no longer active

ITHAcA was a partnership between the acute NHS trusts, two universities, clinical commissioning groups  and the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership. Collaboration across these organisations is vital if a successful reduction of avoidable admissions is to be achieved, and ITHAcA provided a vehicle through which such discussions and partnerships could occur.

The HIT was set up in 2012 and closed in 2020.

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  • 17th October 2022
News featuring this Health Integration Team

Research in Emergency Care, Avon Collaborative Hub webpages now live

  • 9th March 2021
The Research in Emergency Care, Avon Collaborative Hub (REACH) webpages are now live on…

New emergency care research hub for Bristol launched

  • 13th October 2020
The University of Bristol and UWE Bristol have joined forces with health care partners in…

ITHAcA HIT – its successes and sustaining its impact

  • 26th May 2020
The Avoiding Hospital Admissions Health Integration Team (ITHAcA HIT) has had some incredible…

Avoiding Hospital Admissions (ITHAcA) HIT review for 2019-20

  • 22nd April 2020
Professor Sarah Purdy and Dr Peter Goyder, Directors of the Integration to Avoid…

Avoiding Hospital Admissions HIT review of 2018-19

  • 7th May 2019
Professor Sarah Purdy and Dr Peter Goyder, Directors of the Integration to Avoid Hospital Admissions…

HITs with a focus on healthy, safe environments get together for a networking breakfast

  • 12th October 2018
On Wednesday 3 October, Health Integration Teams (HITs) with a focus on healthy, safe environments…
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