Quick question about hospital discharge?

[VladmirsPoutine]

Does anyone know if there's a general rule that if after a certain time of day it's unlikely someone can be discharged or can it happen pretty much anytime?

Thanks!!
(If it helps a London-based hospital and yes we've spoken with doctors too but no news on that front either).

Can happen at any time of day. Are you worried about an unsafe discharge?

If there are any rules they are probably local.
Will depend on whether someone needs TTO (to take out) meds from pharmacy, whether they need a care package, hospital transport etc
With the bed states, wards will try to get people out asap but if you are worried something isn't safe, tell them.

My daughter has been discharged at 1am in the morning before and we had a 3 hour drive home. X

Unless social circumstances mean it would be an unsafe discharge (e.g. starting a care package, or no relatives at home to support), then discharges can happen at any time as long as both patient and ward are happy with the discharge. I’ve sent people home (safely) at 10pm before because they were desperate to get home to their own beds!

@VladmirsPoutine any time really, but will take much longer around shift changes. I was supposed to be discharged, all the paperwork supposedly filled out by 5pm, just awaiting one final result to check. It came back at shift change (around 7/8pm), all fine, said the next shift would discharge me, and they spent ages messing about. I had to wait for them to do hand over and then the night staff do meds, blood pressure checks, baths etc on everyone before they'd come back to discharge me. They literally just needed to give me the paperwork with my fit note for work!

When it got to 11pm I asked wtf they were doing and was told they still had a few more baths to do then the second round of checks, then they hoped they would have the time to come give me my discharge paperwork. I told them to just give it to me now and I'd go, they said no, I said fine I'll just leave without it! They changed their minds and handed it to me. Utter nonsense.

Thanks all! There's no care package needed, nor any worries at home in terms of aftercare - it just seems a case of every morning being told they'll be discharged but as the day progresses it doesn't seem to go anywhere. AFAIK there's been a few issues with bloodwork but just wondered if say cut off is at some random time so I can stop getting my hopes up every morning!