Sister doesn’t want anyone to know she is in hospital

[Lara96]

This is due to ongoing family problems and is there anyway something can be put on the admission in case someone phones up looking for her so they can be told there is no record of her there.

She can tell the ward sister that she doesn't want any information shared with family. She can also say she doesn't want visitors.

It’s more if they phone up A & E or the switchboard. Could I be have something put in the notes.

Ask the hospital.

Could she perhaps go under an assumed name so that even if someone checks, they wouldn't find her? I don't know how possible that is.

I really can't understand why you would ask this on the internet when one phonecall to a hospital will do. They pick up the phone 24/7.

I really can't understand why you would ask this on the internet

Really? Can you really not understand why someone would post this?

Typical Mumsnet nastiness. If you cannot say anything nice then don't say anything at all.

Is she able to voice this herself? It's usually a question asked on admission and can be recorded in notes at the front, would they have any reason to think she is in hospital to make the enquiries?

A&E & switchboard don’t have access to notes of a patient on a ward and aren’t allowed to access them unless directly involved in a persons care.

Your sister needs to tell whoever is in charge that she doesn’t want visitors and for staff to withhold information over the phone, we aren’t allowed to give clinical details over the phone to anyone, best getting the information out there as soon as possible so all the staff in that day are aware and it can be handed over to the next shift too

I work in a hospital; we daily get phone calls asking "Is so-and-so on the ward?" and we just say "Sorry, we can't confirm or deny any information over the phone." We have no way of knowing whether the caller is really the patient's concerned relative, or if it's an abusive partner trying to track them down, or if they've got caught up in something where they owe someone money and that person's looking for them, or if it's a nosy neighbour just looking for gossip... We'd never give that information out.

@Silvercatowner

No I don't understand it. Truely. Could you explain it to me please?

Typical Mumsnet nastiness. If you cannot say anything nice then don't say anything at all.

It's not really nastiness. It's a fair point.

It's fairly easy just to give the hospital a quick call.