We work directly with hospital staff to ensure that you can be discharged quickly and return to a safe, warm, and accessible home.
Working in 17 hospitals in Wales, our Hospital to a Healthier Home Caseworkers identify older patients who have housing problems that may delay their return home. Care & Repair teams then work with patients and their families to carry out home improvements needed to enable quick and safe discharge. The service improves patient flow and reduces re-admissions, saving the NHS in Wales an estimated 25,000 bed days each year.
How we can help you in hospital
Identify housing issues that may delay your discharge
Ensure discharge is safe
Enter your home with permission to make assessments
Work with your family or friends to arrange necessary changes
How we can help you once home
A free Healthy Homes Check
Help you access useful services and connect you with our partner agencies
Check what welfare benefits you’re entitled to and help you apply for them
Help assist you to live independently and safely
To talk to us about the project and its impact in Wales, please email Faye Patton, Project Manager: faye.patton@careandrepair.org.uk
Hospital to a Healthier Home won the Partnership Award at the Welsh Housing Awards 2022, for its partnership work with the NHS in Wales.
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“The Hospital to a Healthier Home service has provided much needed, positive support during the pandemic. Not only has it helped make available precious hospital capacity – where safe to do so – but it has helped older vulnerable people to go back to their own homes, facilitating safer and quicker discharges with rapid adaptations to ensure they are able to stay home to help reduce readmission rates. The service has demonstrated very positive outcomes, high satisfaction rates with positive testimonials from hospital staff and patients and excellent value. It is a testament to the service and its caseworkers that patient satisfaction is at 99%”
– Vaughan Gething, MS
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