Monday 06 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7330
Date Request Received: 27/07/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 03/08/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Patients with no fixed abode
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: How many individuals have been discharged to ‘no fixed abode’ from hospitals within your trust? Where possible please provide data both by individual medical department and as a whole (for the entire Trust). Please provide data for each of the following financial years: - 2022/2023 (or the latest financial year) - 2017/2018 If you do not hold data on the number of individuals, please provide the number of discharges there have been to ‘no fixed abode’. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Q1 - Please see attached file To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI_7330 - Patients with No Fixed Abode workings.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: a. Of those individuals who were discharged to ‘no fixed abode’ (in Q1) how many were readmitted within six months? Please provide data for each of the following financial years: - 2022/2023 (or the latest financial year) - 2017/2018 If you do not hold data on the number of individuals, please provide the number of readmissions. b. Of the individuals in Q2a, how many individuals were readmitted because of substance use issues? Please provide data for each of the following financial years: - 2022/2023 (or the latest financial year) - 2017/2018 | |
| Answer To Question 2: Q2 - Please see attached file on Q1 | |
| Question Number 3: Does your NHS Trust have guidance/policy in place that details how to support a patient who is being discharged from hospital to ‘no fixed abode’? | |
| Answer To Question 3: Our staff intranet outlines guidance for those involved in discharge who become aware of patients who might need additional support due to homelessness. | |
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