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Leaving hospital to go to another place of care: patient leaflet

Leaflet given to patients before they are discharged to another place of care.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 21 August 2020
• Last updated: 10 August 2022
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  1. 10 August 2022

     Added translated PDF versions of this leaflet.

  2. 28 July 2022

     Added translations in Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi Gurmukhi, Spanish, Urdu and an easy read version of the leaflet in English.

  3. 6 May 2022

     Updated to reflect changes to hospital discharge guidance following the end of the national discharge fund.

  4. 31 March 2022

     Updated to add a call out to reflect the leaflet is out of date and should not be used; deleted the PDF, PowerPoint, easy read and translated versions of the leaflet. An updated leaflet will be published soon.

  5. 28 July 2021

     The language in the translations has been updated in line with the new leaflet.

  6. 25 August 2020

     Added translations and accessible versions of leaflets.

  7. 21 August 2020

     First published.

Documents

You are leaving hospital to go to another place of care (editable PDF)

PDF, 71 KB, 1 page

You are leaving hospital to go to another place of care

HTML

Leaving hospital to go to another place of care (easy read guide)

PDF, 610 KB, 8 pages

Details

The leaflet is shown to patients prior to their discharge from hospital to go to further non-acute bedded care, such as a care home.

The editable PDF allows specific contact details to be added in case patients need to speak to someone after leaving hospital.