Guiding You Home
Feedback from relatives/friends on hospital discharge arrangements
Health and social care leaders in Sunderland want to improve the outcomes of people discharged from hospital by promoting 'home first' as the priority.
A programme designed to speed up hospital discharge by supporting patients to return home has been launched by NHS and local authority leaders.
Called ‘Guiding You Home’, it aims to support as many patients as possible who have an urgent health or care need to receive that care as close to home as possible, as part of neighbourhood working.
The initiative is designed to ensure that people are given the right care in the right setting from the point of preparing for hospital discharge, through home-based services and ‘returning to independence’ beds.
