Healthwatch England want to hear your experiences of leaving hospital

Healthwatch Sefton has contacted the Travellers' Times to alert us about an England-wide online survey of people's experiences of care in hospital during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Share your feedback on hospital discharge by filling in our survey - say Healthwatch England

As part of the #BecauseWeAllCare campaign to encourage everyone to support the NHS post-Covid recovery, local Healthwatch around the country are asking people to share their experience of care in hospital.

The usual way hospitals helped patients leave to go home changed during the coronavirus. This was to free up beds and Healthwatch wants to hear from those who were affected because of these changes.

If you’ve been in hospital recently you should have:

• been discharged within two hours, once you no longer need hospital care
• had your care and support needs assessed once you have left hospital
• been moved to the first available bed in a care home, if you cannot go home
• had any further care or support you need fully funded by the NHS

While these changes have successfully got people out of hospital and helped the NHS manage the demand created by coronavirus, we don’t know how the new processes are working for both patients, their families and healthcare professionals.

By sharing your feedback Healthwatch – the consumer champion for health and social care – will be able to understand how these changes have affected people’s health and wellbeing, both positively and negatively.

People can leave their feedback by completing the brief leaving hospital survey.

Or visit the Healthwatch England website for more information and how to find your local Healthwatch.

TT/Healthwatch Sefton