Discharge from hospital
Discharge from hospital
We make sure you are discharged in a planned and safe way.
- Your care team will check what support you will have or may need in future.
- We are not responsible for organising your pick up and transport home, but we can provide help and advice.
- At Waikato Hospital there is a Transit Lounge where you can wait in comfortable surroundings for someone to collect you.
- In some cases your care team will have referred you to a community-based service in your local area, or may be transferring you to a local hospital or continuing care/convalescent facility.
- Your care team will decide when you are ready for discharge, and that decision will be reviewed and signed off by a senior doctor.
- Prescriptions for medications – you will need to get medications for future use from a community pharmacy. At Waikato Hospital, you can ask the ward to send prescriptions to Pharmacy on Meade and you can collect them from the pharmacy on Level 1, Meade Clinical Centre before you go home.
- You may be given a follow-up clinic appointment.
Please ask if there is anything you are not sure about – your medications, your discharge, your rehabilitation, or the support you may need at home. We are here to help.