Healthwatch routinely carries out short surveys to gather the views of people about health and social care services. This month we’re keen to understand your experiences of hospital discharge.

We’d like to hear from people discharged from hospital in the last 12 months, or from their relatives, carers or friends, about their experience.

Being discharged from hospital

When you leave hospital after treatment, you go through a process called hospital discharge.

Healthcare professionals should work with you and the people most important to you, to ensure your transfer out of hospital is safe, appropriate, and timely. They should discuss your needs with you and how they will be met after leaving hospital. More information is available from the NHS here.

Healthwatch in Sussex as the local independent watchdog for health and care would like to hear about your most recent experience of hospital discharge, to see how the process is working and how it could be improved.

• How involved were you in the hospital discharge process?
• Whether the hospital discharge process met your needs?
• What you’d improve? 

Completing our poll

Our poll will only take a few minutes to complete and your personal data is protected and treated securely (see below). The poll closes on 30th September.

Complete our poll here

Any information that you give will be held in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

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