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Addressing the increasing demand for secondary healthcare services, the cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday approved the creation of 623 positions within the Hospital Nursing
Background: Hospital readmissions are most common in older people and associated with adverse outcomes and increased health system costs. Understanding who is most at risk informs strategies to reduce readmission. Aim: To investigate associations between the healthy ageing status of acutely hospitalised older people and risk of hospital readmission. Methods: A prospective cohort study combining medical record and survey data from older people admitted to acute hospitals. The Kaplan–Meier approach was used to estimate probability of readmission within 60 days and Cox's proportional-hazards model was used to assess the relationship between healthy ageing status and risk of readmission. Findings: Of the 143 participants, 56 (39%) were readmitted within 60 days. Those in the lowest healthy ageing index quartile had a 30.6% (95% CI 0.14–0.44) probability of readmission. After adjusting for potential confounders, increasing healthy ageing index was independently associated with a de