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Unpaid carers and hospital discharge in Wales

The Senedd Health and Social Care Committee is holding an inquiry into hospital discharge.  The Committee wants to consider what causes delayed discharge for patients from hospital, the impact of delayed discharge on carers and the patient, what the barriers are and what support, help and advice is in place for carers during the process and what is needed to enable people to return home at the right time, with the right care and support in place.

Carers Wales has been invited to give evidence on the impact on unpaid carers. If you are an unpaid carer, and have had experience of the hospital discharge process recently, we would be very grateful if you could share your thoughts in this quick survey to inform our response and engagement with the committee.

Thank you for your insights.
1.Who has been in hospital recently?
2.Were you identified as the main carer by hospital staff?
3.Were you offered any advice, help or support or otherwise consulted with during the hospital discharge process?(Required.)
4.If you were consulted with, do you feel that your needs were properly taken into account?(Required.)
5.During the process were you given a choice on what aspects of care you would be willing and able to take on?(Required.)
6.Were you offered a carers needs assessment during the hospital discharge process? (this is an assessment considering what your needs are likely to be when you take on or resume a caring responsibility)(Required.)
7.Did the person you look after have their care and support needs assessed?
8.Do you believe that sufficient social care support was in place before they were discharged from hospital? (Please skip if not applicable)
9.Did the person you look after have 6 weeks free care at home following discharge from hospital?
10.If the person you care for experienced a delay in discharge due to lack of support available, what has the impact been on you and the person you care for?
11.Do you believe it is important that hospital staff involve carers in the discharge process?(Required.)
12.What do you think is needed to be enable people to leave hospital at the right time?
13.Was the person you look after re-admitted to hospital within the following 12 months after their discharge?
14.Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your experiences?
15.In which local authority area do you live?(Required.)
16.Would you be willing for us to contact you again about this issue?
17.If you answered yes to the previous question, please provide
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