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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 — See all updates

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.

Published 21 August 2020
Last updated 10 August 2022 + show all updates

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   Updated to add a call out to reflect the leaflet is out of date and should not be used; deleted the PDF, PowerPoint, easy read and translated versions of the leaflet.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