Hospitals: Discharges

(asked on 25th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will update the discharge to assess guidance for hospitals to ensure that the executive lead for hospital discharge has specific responsibility for carers.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 3rd December 2021

We recognise the important role that the executive lead can play in provide strategic oversight of the discharge to assess process. Carers should be supported throughout the hospital discharge process. This includes determining if they are able to provide care and supplying information and advice for further support when the patient is discharged.

Updated hospital discharge guidance is due to be published in spring 2022. We are co-producing this guidance with carers’ organisations to ensure rights and protections for carers throughout the discharge process.

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