Planning for your discharge from hospital
Throughout your stay in hospital you have had regular CPA meetings and at each of these your progress, your treatment and your discharge have been discussed with you.
When you are ready for discharge, we will plan with you to find the most suitable place for you to live.
Discharge into the community
If it is planned for you to move into the community when you are ready for discharge, you will be referred to the community forensic team.
When you are discharged into the community, you may have different professionals looking after you, for example you may have a different;
- consultant
- social worker
- nurse.
You will meet some of the people from the community forensic team and get to know them before you leave hospital.
What will happen before I am discharged?
At 6 months before discharge – a CPA meeting will be held and will include all professionals involved in your current and future care.
At this meeting we will develop discharge intervention plans with you.
At 3 months before discharge – we will have a CPA meeting and at this meeting we will review the discharge intervention plans. We will also check that everything is moving forward as planned for your discharge.
What will happen when I am discharged?
There will be another CPA meeting, and your care will be transferred from a secure in-patient service to your new community forensic team.
Within a week after you have been discharged, you will be visited by one of the community forensic care team involved in your care.
They will talk to you to see how you are doing and offer any extra support you might need.
Access to information about you
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 to store and use personal information. We ask for information about you so you can receive proper care and treatment. We keep this information together with details of your care, because it may be needed if we see you again.
Everyone working in the NHS has a legal duty to keep information about you confidential. You can request the personal information we hold about you.
To access your personal information, write to the Data Protection Privacy Officer, Information Governance Department, Lanchester Road Hospital, Durham City, DH1 5RD
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