What is a Hospital Passport?
A Hospital Passport is designed to give hospital staff helpful information about the person, about their health and social needs and guides staff on the best way to support the person when they come to hospital.
- Hospital Passports belong to the person and are completed by them with help if needed from their family, friends, carers and others that people that provide support.
- Hospital Passports provide important information and ensures hospital staff have immediate access to essential information about the person to enable us to provide person-centred care and treatment and make the necessary reasonable adjustments to ensure everyone gets fair access to good quality health care.
- Completed Passports will be reviewed before uploading to the person’s electronic hospital records.
Hospital Passport includes:
- The details of the people that need to be included in the person’s support and care.
- Information on the best way to arrange appointments, hospital stays and transport.
- How best to communicate with the person and identifies the specific support needs when the person visits the hospital.
- It will identify the person’s activities of daily living skills and support needs.
- It will identify what the person likes and dislikes and guide staff how to support the person if they are upset or distressed.
Where can I find Hospital Passports?
You can find them from our download section on the right-hand side of this page.