The #SolvingTogether “crowdsourcing” platform is a regionally-led and centrally supported initiative to capture, assess, test and share ideas on a range of issues affecting our NHS. Recently #SolvingTogether has crowdsourced ideas for supporting the recovery of NHS elective care. The ideas for elective care are being themed and prototyped before the selected big ideas are rolled out for local implementation.

Heading #Home4Noon is part of the 100 Day Discharge Challenge, which aims to support trusts and systems to adopt 10 best practice initiatives to support hospital discharge. NHS and social care staff can access a range of resources to help them implement the initiatives in their own organisation on a new dedicated website.

We are asking: What should always happen to ensure people go home from hospital earlier in the day and be heading #Home4Noon?

People who are ready to be discharged from hospital should leave as early in the day as is possible, and ideally be heading #Home4Noon. This provides a better experience for the person receiving care because there is less waiting around in hospital, they will be arriving home during the day time, and they can be settled into their home environment with everything from shopping to equipment that they will need already in place.

Heading #Home4Noon is also useful for those people who are waiting to come into hospital either for an operation, or following assessment in the emergency department. Being admitted earlier in the day means they too have a better experience because they are settled into the ward and their family can visit them. It will also help to make things easier for staff by freeing up time and resources for new people as they are admitted.

As the heading #Home4Noon challenges on #SolvingTogether gather momentum, the ideas, votes and interactions will be reviewed synchronously and asynchronously, feeding in to the Improvement support offers being agreed by ECIST with the regional teams.

Whilst the platform is live, every idea that has been submitted will be looked at and receive a response from an active team of community managers.

The challenges are framed for the following groups: People; Teams; and Organisations, including systems.

Please visit the challenge area to read more about these groups, and share your ideas. If you haven't yet registered, please do - it only takes seconds. Registering means you can add your ideas and get involved with the conversations on the platform. You can register with your email address or by signing in with your social media account (Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn). Please tell other people who might be able to contribute to the ideas hub.

Join in on social media by sharing the 100 Day Discharge social media content from @NHSTransform and using the hashtags #ImprovingDischarge, heading #Home4Noon and #SolvingTogether.

#SolvingTogether is an open process and all the assessments, outputs and ideas to be taken forward will be available for everyone to see.

For questions about discharge please email: england.eeci@nhs.net . For questions about #SolvingTogether please email england.solvingtogether@nhs.net.