Planning
If your admission is planned, it is vital you prepare for your discharge before coming into hospital.
Your needs will be discussed with you and your family. If you would like them involved. Including friends and family in the conversations will help identify what support they can provide and what extra support you may need.
If you, a family member, or a friend are admitted to hospital please consider any pets and ensure there is someone on hand to look after them.
Discharge to Assess
We will plan your discharge from the moment you are admitted to hospital.
On the day you no longer require hospital care, a ‘discharge to assess’ process will be followed.
You will be assessed to decide where is the best place to complete your recovery. Usually this will be in your own home.
Where our community team will then complete a full assessment of your health and social care needs.
You will only leave hospital when it is safe to do so.
However, you will not be able to remain in hospital if you choose not to accept the care that is being offered.
Our team will try their best to get you home with the support you need and back to normal as soon as possible.
Home – Pathway 0
Once our health and social care team agree it’s safe, you’ll be discharged home. A volunteer from the ‘Home from Hospital’ service may support you in getting home and settling back into your house.
In most cases, the best place for you to recovery will be in your own home, where you can recover at your own pace with your existing care support.
A volunteer working with the discharge team will telephone you to check on your recovery.
Please ask any questions you may have at any point during your treatment. Our professionals are here to explain things to you fully.
Our team will try their best to get you home with the support you need and back to normal as soon as possible.
If you have any questions please speak to your health or social care professionals in charge of your care.
