The timeliness, safety and dignity of patients’ discharge from hospital is one of Wandsworth LINk’s main priority projects for 2009/2010. We chose to focus on this because we had heard from many LINk members who told us about problems they had experienced when they were discharged from hospital.

Wandsworth LINk members have been working with patients, care service users and carers to identify the ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’ to hospital discharge over the last year. We have also worked with staff from Health and care providers serving the borough including: St George’s, Kingston, Chelsea and Westminster, Springfield, and Barnes hospitals, Community Nursing Services and Adult Care Social Services.

We would like to invite you to answer the following questions relating to your hospital discharge. Was it a good experience or not?  When we have gathered a cross section of views, we will write up our findings, publish them and share them with Health and Care agencies within Wandsworth. We hope that this will be used to improve our local services.

Please download and fill in the HOSPITAL DISCHARGE QUESTIONNAIRE and email it back to freechoice@wandcareall.org.uk

Alternatively you can post the questionnaire back to us at  Wandsworth LINk, Wandsworth Care Alliance, Trident Business Centre, 89 Bickersteth Road, Tooting, SW17 9SH