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Original feedback for

Ipswich Hospital (Part of the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust)


Patient discharged too early from hospital

At 5pm a patient was discharged from hospital to the care home.She has dementia and it too 2 paramedics and 2 carers to get her into the wheelchair. When she was discharged her behaviour was significantly different to when she was admitted to the hospital and she had become quite aggressive. The home was told there were no changes they needed to be aware of but the change when she arrived home was noticeable immediately. We were not equipped or able to deal with this. Within an hour she had broken her hip and then went back to hospital. As carers we felt she should not have been discharged as the care home cannot provide one to one 24 hour care and this was not explained or discussed properly prior to her being discharged from hospital.