A Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Healthwatch Peterborough report

A new report by Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Healthwatch Peterborough calls on local hospitals, health and care services to work with patients and their families to improve information, communication and support around the hospital discharge system.

The report, Leaving hospital during Covid-19, highlights the experiences of 35 patients leaving Addenbrooke’s, Peterborough City Hospital, and Hinchingbrooke between June and August 2020.

It reveals that some local people did not have the support, equipment, and essential information they needed when they got home.

Healthwatch is recommending changes to the complicated discharge system – and local hospitals and care services say they are taking on board the report’s learning to improve information and support for patients and their families.

• More details of the report, and Healthwatch’s recommendations, can be found here.