Being discharged from NHS Hospital

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A family relative was discharged from hospital last night following a 2 week stay. He was tested on being admitted and was negative so was staying on a non covid ward. When the ward telephoned to let us know he was being discharged I asked if he was tested for covid19 again but they advised he hadn't and it wasn't necessary. But surely to prevent further transmission if he did pick it up in there it would be good practice. He is in his 70's and shielding and lives with his wife in her 80's also shielding. I had to go round to help settle him back and organise his medications and again today as he needed assistance but I feel at risk as my husband is shielding and I worry there is a chance I could take it home with me. Can the hospital be that confident that now no cross infection between covid and non covid patients can occur? Whilst in there he was seen by drs, physios, OTs as well as healthcare assistants and nurses. He also had ct scans, trays, haircut!! so mixed with many people.

All I can say is that in our local hospital there has definitely been cases of hospital transmission of Covid. Dh works there, he has had quite a few patients test negative on admission then later test positive.

Most care homes are insisting on a negative test before they allow us to discharge the patient back to them.

Thanks Missy this is what I worry about. We are told that there is extra capacity for testing now so why on earth don't they test people before leaving hospital?

Order a home test for him online or take him to a drive through test centre. You’ll know the result within days

You can take one also

Yes Damn I can understand the carehomes insisting and it make complete sense. It just feels as though lessons still have not been learnt. This gentlemen could possibly infect so many people as he will have home visits from his gp during the week and other care staff.

I thought you could only get a test at a drive through or at home if you were showing symptoms. I will check into it further.

That's odd. The rules are now inpatients have a swab on admission, every 5 days and on discharge.

Is it really hayfever! is that an NHS England rule? The ward nurse said he had a test on admittance and nothing more. I feel I need to speak to the hospital now.

We test everyone on admission then every Monday.

No you can just order one it is really easy, just go online hope it is Ok