Walsall Manor Hospital Discharge Process May 2019

However, for some people being admitted to hospital, this may lead to life changing conditions and ongoing support being needed.

For those, this may mean that they require support on their discharge from hospital and in the past, this has meant that some patients who are *medically fit for discharge have remained in hospital unnecessarily. This has been due to a number of factors such as waiting for social care assessments, care packages to be arranged and or external and internal changes to properties to accommodate their support needs. In order to prevent delays to discharge and to ensure that patients are assessed in a way to reflect the circumstances that they live in rather than assessing them in a hospital, processes have been put in place to reduce delays in discharge and to ensure patients leave with the most appropriate care package.