Making Plans to Go Home
Planned Discharge
A day and time for your discharge home will be agreed in advance with you. This will allow you to plan ahead for your own discharge. The ward staff may indicate that you should be collected and accompanied by a friend or relative when you go home. It is important that you plan this with your friends or relatives as soon as you know your discharge date.
When you leave we will give you a limited supply of any medicines you may need and a discharge letter for you to take to your GP when you get home.
Please leave your home address and contact number with a member of staff on the ward. If you are planning to stay somewhere else, please leave an address where you can be contacted.
Non-Emergency Patient Transport
Transport will be provided for those patients who are assessed as being medically unable to make their own way home from hospital.
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