.................Leaving hospital.................
Before the person you care for leaves hospital, there should be a discharge plan worked out.
If they can, the person you care for should be involved in developing this plan as there is evidence that shows that people who are involved in developing their own plans have better outcomes.
You should also be involved in any decision making that may impact on your caring role. The only time this would not occur is if the person you care for does not consent (if they can) to you receiving information about their condition or care requirements – if this occurs and you have any concerns, please discuss with the medical or nursing staff or contact our Carers Qld Advisory Service - Phone 1800 242 636 M-F 9am-5pm.
Carers Qld Resource Centre https://carersqld.com.au/
Hospital discharge: From 30 April 2020, two temporary support items were added to support participants leaving hospital to continue to access the assistive technology (AT) they need to be safely go home from hospital. They can cover the AT rental for up to six months until their short, medium and long term AT and home modification needs can be assessed and an amended plan is in place.
This applies until 30 September 2020, with a review before the end of June 2020.
Leaving hospital:
https://www.goldcoast.health.qld.gov.au/patients-and-visitors/leaving-hospital
Leaving hospital is being discharged and means “checking out” of hospital. The daily discharge time is usually 10am.
A quick checklist before leaving hospital:
MASS Equipment to Home Program has been introduced to facilitate the prompt discharge of patients from Queensland Health hospitals and associated transition facilities throughout Queensland and to eliminate the need for patients to remain as an inpatient while waiting for the provision of basic assistive technology for discharge.
Ask when you are receiving your rehabilitation. "Can I take this ... (aid) home with me?"
Examples of Assistive Technology currently provided on the program includes:
My Health Record:
Individuals have a number of mechanisms available to them to manage the content of, and to control access to, their and/or their dependent's My Health Record(s).
These include - Limiting access
Access to the record or documents can be changed to restrict access to information they consider sensitive.
What is in My Health Record?
By default, when an individual registers for a My Health Record they give standing consent for all registered healthcare provider organisations to access and upload information to their My Health Record. Learn more here.
20 June 2020
Before the person you care for leaves hospital, there should be a discharge plan worked out.
If they can, the person you care for should be involved in developing this plan as there is evidence that shows that people who are involved in developing their own plans have better outcomes.
You should also be involved in any decision making that may impact on your caring role. The only time this would not occur is if the person you care for does not consent (if they can) to you receiving information about their condition or care requirements – if this occurs and you have any concerns, please discuss with the medical or nursing staff or contact our Carers Qld Advisory Service - Phone 1800 242 636 M-F 9am-5pm.
Carers Qld Resource Centre https://carersqld.com.au/
Hospital discharge: From 30 April 2020, two temporary support items were added to support participants leaving hospital to continue to access the assistive technology (AT) they need to be safely go home from hospital. They can cover the AT rental for up to six months until their short, medium and long term AT and home modification needs can be assessed and an amended plan is in place.
This applies until 30 September 2020, with a review before the end of June 2020.
Leaving hospital:
https://www.goldcoast.health.qld.gov.au/patients-and-visitors/leaving-hospital
Leaving hospital is being discharged and means “checking out” of hospital. The daily discharge time is usually 10am.
A quick checklist before leaving hospital:
- Have you/the person you care for received a supply of medication for the person you care for?
- Have you/the person you care for received a copy of the discharge medication list?
- If there are any medications that have been stopped, have these been disposed of safely?
- Have services for the person you care for/you been organised to start on the day of discharge from hospital, or when required?
- Is any equipment you need to provide care for the patient, or for the patient organised prior to leaving hospital?
- Have you/the person you care for received a copy of the discharge summary (this also gets sent to the patient’s GP or you may be asked to take a 2nd copy to the GP if the person you care for doesn’t have a doctor that they see regularly)?
- Do you/the person you care for need to make a follow up appointment with a GP?
- If so, hospital staff should advise you as to how soon the person you care for needs to see the GP.
- Have you thought about how you may take some time out for yourself, to take a break?
- Are there any family members or friends you can call on for help should you need it?
- Does the person you care for have any follow up appointments you need to write down or have you/the person you care for been given their appointment cards?
- If so, you can write them down or attach in the outpatient appointment section.
- Have you registered with Carers Qld to receive ongoing support and advice?
MASS Equipment to Home Program has been introduced to facilitate the prompt discharge of patients from Queensland Health hospitals and associated transition facilities throughout Queensland and to eliminate the need for patients to remain as an inpatient while waiting for the provision of basic assistive technology for discharge.
Ask when you are receiving your rehabilitation. "Can I take this ... (aid) home with me?"
Examples of Assistive Technology currently provided on the program includes:
- walkers
- transfer benches
- basic shower commodes and
- bedside commodes that are already on the MASS SOA.
My Health Record:
Individuals have a number of mechanisms available to them to manage the content of, and to control access to, their and/or their dependent's My Health Record(s).
These include - Limiting access
- Limiting access to the whole of their record and having a Record Access Code that needs to be given to healthcare provider organisations who they wish to grant access and/or;
- Limiting access to specific documents in their My Health Record, and having a Document Access Code to give to select healthcare provider organisations for them to gain access to the restricted set of documents;
- Turning off automatic checking for a My Health Record, which will prevent a healthcare provider organisation being automatically notified via their local clinical software if a person has a record.
Access to the record or documents can be changed to restrict access to information they consider sensitive.
What is in My Health Record?
By default, when an individual registers for a My Health Record they give standing consent for all registered healthcare provider organisations to access and upload information to their My Health Record. Learn more here.
20 June 2020