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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
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.
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It's good to have someone who has worked at the coalface who is able to fill us in on these details. Thanks Margaret.