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Hospital discharge service guidance

Guidance on how health and care systems should support the safe and timely discharge of people who no longer need to stay in hospital.

Updates to this page

From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published:
21 August 2020
Last updated:
30 January 2024
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  1. Added the documents 'Discharging people at risk of or experiencing homelessness' and 'Discharge from mental health inpatient settings'.

  2. Added link to 'Hospital discharge and community support guidance'.

  3. Added link to 'Designated settings for people discharged to a care home'.

  4. First published.

See Infection prevention and control in adult social care settings and Infection prevention and control in adult social care: COVID-19 supplement for information on discharging people who are likely to be infectious with COVID-19 from hospital to a care home.

Guidance documents

Leaflets for patients and their family or friends

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