Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Myanmar (Burmese)
Nepali
Norwegian
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
Discharge latest: Making sure patients are home safe for Christmas
Staff at Barts Health NHS Trust hospitals are doing everything they can to make sure patients can be safely discharged home before Christmas.
We care about our patients. Our patients will only be discharged from hospital when they are well enough.
The Trust is today asking families and friends to prepare their homes if a loved one is ready to leave hopsital.
Healthcare teams will seek to discharge patients to the best place for recovery, at home or in a community setting.
Nobody wants to be away from their home during Christmas, and while our staff will do everything possible to support patient experience on Christmas Day, there is no substitute for being back at home healthy over the festive period.
Some people may not need any help when they get home this week, but for those who do, our teams will make sure that the right support is in place. It is best for people’s health and wellbeing to be treated away from hospital, ideally in their own home, when medically safe to do so.
Trust staff at our hospitals and Integrated Discharge Hubs are working alongside health partners across North East London, to do everything they can to discharge patients safely before Christmas.
This includes the Newham Integrated Discharge Hub, set up in response to Covid-19, to support residents rapidly, safely and securely in their discharge from hospital.
Gill Parry, Discharge team manager at Newham Hospital, said: “The implementation of the Integrated Discharge Hub has provided an opportunity for staff from different organisations to come together and work in partnership in a way that wasn't possible previously.”
“This has led to a joined-up coordinated approach to discharging patients from hospital.”
“The approach has enabled the identification of need and barriers to care, at a much earlier stage in the process – facilitating better discharges with positive outcomes for patients, their families and carers.”
We appreciate that the discharge process will be different for those currently receiving inpatient care in one of Barts Health NHS Trust’s mental health or dementia units, but across the NHS we are keen for people to be in the place that's right for their recovery this Christmas.
Read more