Carers UK Forum

MYTH BUSTING
It is the responsibility of all local stakeholders to make sure patients, carers and their representatives understand that this is NOT about:
• Discharging people from hospital before they are clinically ready.
• Discharging people without assessment for services required for their safety at home or another community setting.
• Moving people home from hospital without the right support and without their consent or a best interests decision.
• Creating an additional transfer in a person’s care pathway in order to free up a hospital bed, without adding value to their experience of care or meeting good outcomes for the person.
• Moving people without clear pathways and processes, including an agreed care plan.
• Denying people the right to an assessment for NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) if they may have a need for this.
• Charging people for care they should receive free from the NHS.
• Moving costs from health to social care or vice versa.
• Working only with people with low level or special needs.

• To be safe if the person is going home, the assessment should be done promptly (within 2 hours), with rapid (on the day) access to care and support if it is required.