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Hospital Services

This page lists information to help you prepare for a hospital stay, support services for carers and patients and for those coming out of hospital.

We list many events and services on this website from other organisations and we do this in good faith.  Please be aware that a listing on this website is not a service endorsement or recommendation.  We urge you to do your own research about all organisations before using their services and to check the times and dates of events with them before attending them.  We rely on service providers to tell us if their service provision or contact details change.  Good places to check organisations include: the Care Quality Commission, Check a Trade, the Charity Commission and for each sector there is usually a professional service regulator, for example the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

AccessAble

AccessAble, the new name for DisabledGo, is Your Accessibility Guide - here to take the chance out of going out. 10,000s of places - visited in person. Read more

Published: 9th October, 2018

Author: Pip Armitage

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  • Hospital Services
  • Accessible activities services
  • Transport and travel services

Accessible Information Standard

From 1st August 2016 onwards, all organisations that provide NHS care and / or publicly-funded adult social care are legally required to follow the Accessible Information Standard. The Standard sets out a specific, consistent approach to identifying, recording, flagging, sharing and meeting the information and communication support needs of patients, service users, carers and parents with a disability, impairment or sensory loss. Read more

Published: 2nd August, 2018

Author: Pip Armitage

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  • Hospital Services
  • Accessible activities services

Additional information or communication needs when attending hospital

Tell the hospital in advance of needs so staff can help e.g. - information such as braille, large print or easy read - support from advocate or interpreter at your appointments - hearing loop or visual alert - a communication passport Read more

Published: 22nd August, 2019

Author: Pip Armitage

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  • Hospital Services
  • Accessible activities services

Cancer patient and carer group

A patient group set up to help improve services for cancer patients at Southampton General Hospital Read more

Published: 4th September, 2017

Updated: 6th September, 2017

Author: Pip Armitage

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  • Hospital Services
  • Cancer services

Care after you leave hospital

Some NHS guides on care arrangements after a stay in hospital. Read more

Published: 19th June, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

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  • Care after a hospital stay
  • mental health aftercare
  • arranging care before you leave hospital
  • NHS guides
  • Hospital Services

Communicare Hospital Homecoming Service

Communicare's Homecoming Project offers people help in the first few days, or even weeks, when they are discharged from hospital and is run by us and staffed by our committed, kind-hearted, Communiteers, who act as good neighbours; generously providing their practical and emotional support. Service offered in SCC postcodes SO14-SO19. Read more

Published: 5th March, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

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Communicare in Southampton

Communicare in Southampton is a friendly, local charity that enriches the quality of life of lonely and isolated people in and around Southampton. Committed volunteers offer practical and emotional support in a variety of ways at no cost to the clients. Services aviailable to areas covered by Southampton City Council SO14-SO19. Read more

Published: 23rd August, 2017

Updated: 30th October, 2020

Author: Ashley Raynor

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  • Transport and travel services
  • SO18

Experts by Experience

The Experts by Experience programme takes individuals with firsthand experience as service users on Care Quality Commission inspections to help compile reports on the standard of care provision, by speaking directly to users of the service and giving users’ opinions a voice Read more

Published: 24th January, 2019

Author: Pip Armitage

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Hospital Carers Card

University Hospitals Southampton now have a sunflower lanyard scheme for those with hidden disabilities, visible disabilities and carers. Read more

Published: 2nd July, 2020

Updated: 27th November, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
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  • hospital
  • carer
  • visible disabilities
  • UHSFT
  • sunflower scheme
  • carers
  • hidden disabilities
  • University Hospitals Southampton
  • Anxiety and stress disorders services
  • Learning Disability services
  • Physical Disability services
  • Crohn's disease services
  • Hospital Services
  • Sensory Impairment services
  • Autism Services

Hospital discharge

A really simple guide from Age UK to the hospital discharge process Read more

Published: 19th June, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • understanding discharge process
  • hospital discharge
  • AgeUK
  • Hospital Services

Hospital information for carers

This page contains useful information for anyone caring for someone who is being treated at University Hospital Southampton. Read more

Published: 13th January, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • hospital
  • medicine
  • Hospital Services

Hospital Liaison Nurses at NHS Southern Health

Help for adults with learning disabilities that need to use hospital services. Southampton General Hospital Learning Disability Number: 023 8120 5367 Autism Nurse Specialist: 023 8120 5367 Read more

Published: 22nd November, 2017

Updated: 25th January, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

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  • liaison nurse
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  • learning disabilities
  • Southampton General Hospital
  • Autism Nurse Specialist
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  • autism
  • Learning Disability services
  • Hospital Services
  • Autism Services

How to complain or give feedback about an NHS service

This is a document that lists options for providing feedback to your GP or local hospital or other NHS provider Read more

Published: 31st August, 2018

Updated: 20th September, 2019

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • hospital
  • NHS
  • GP
  • Hospital Services
  • GP services

How to notify accessibility needs at University Hospital Southampton

University Hospital Southampton have developed an online form which patients (or their carers) can complete to let them know if they have any accessible information needs when coming in to the hospital. Read more

Published: 18th July, 2019

Updated: 25th January, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • accessibility
  • Learning Disability services
  • Dementia services
  • Physical Disability services
  • Hospital Services
  • Sensory Impairment services
  • Autism Services

Integrated Discharge Bureau

There is a discharge team that brings together staff from Southampton City Council and University Hospital Southampton to ensure that ongoing care needs are met either at home or in an appropriate care environment. Read more

Published: 25th April, 2019

Updated: 12th September, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • Social Care Connect
  • hospital
  • Integrated Discharge Bureau
  • discharge process
  • IDB
  • hospital discharge
  • Southampton General Hospital
  • discharge
  • University Hospitals Southampton
  • Hospital Services

Learning Disability Dental Passport

A document that details needs and preferences simply and clearly Read more

Published: 8th November, 2017

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • Learning Disability services
  • Hospital Services

Learning Disability Optometrist Easy Read Passport

A document that details a patient's needs simply and clearly Read more

Published: 8th November, 2017

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • Learning Disability services
  • Hospital Services
  • Sensory Impairment services

Learning Disability Passport for Hospital Admission

This is a booklet to complete for children, young people and adults with learning disabilities or autism coming to Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust Read more

Published: 23rd August, 2019

Updated: 4th December, 2020

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • hospital passport
  • Learning Disability services
  • Caring for a child
  • Hospital Services
  • Parent carer services

Learning Disability Pre-Health Check Passport

A document that details a patient's needs simply and clearly Read more

Published: 8th November, 2017

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • Learning Disability services
  • Hospital Services

Lions Message in a Bottle

The Lions Message In a Bottle scheme is a simple idea designed to encourage people to keep their personal and medical details on a standard form and in a common location – the fridge. Read more

Published: 5th December, 2017

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • Message in a Bottle
  • Lions
  • Hospital Services
  • Emergency contacts services
  • Healthy living services

List of medical abbreviations used by clinicians

Want to know your TIA from your AAA? Here is a list of medical terms and their meanings as a reference. Read more

Published: 7th June, 2019

Author: Pip Armitage

Related topics:
  • medical abbreviations
  • acronyms
  • Hospital Services
  • Housing
  • Healthy living services
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