Avoiding unhappy returns: radical reductions in readmissions, achieved with volunteers

Avoiding unhappy returns: radical reductions in readmissions, achieved with volunteers This research finds that almost 150,000 older people had no support on returning home from hospital and for those that did get some kind of help, approximately 20 per cent didn’t receive continuing support. This report contains a summary of the achievements of the Hospital 2 Home scheme in Leicestershire service in it's first year, finding that over 600 older people have been supported, with very low readmission rates to hospital among those who used the scheme. Royal Voluntary Service