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Old 31-05-2012, 17:49   #35
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Re: East Lancashire health and lifestyle survey from the NHS.

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
These questions that the Sister asked you were important, in that they allow for discharge planning. The staff need to identify possible social/problems in the home early, in order to alert social/homecare services, so that your dischrage home is not delayed by the late identification of situations that would make it unsafe to send you home.
This is done on admission because patients are having much shorter stays in hospital.
This only started 3 years ago Margaret, and why a sister or staff nurse, why not the ward aid, isn't that what they're for.
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