If you want help, please speak to your health professional and ask them to refer you to Home from Hospital.
Health professionals: how to make a referral
Please submit an online referral form here.
Tel: 01274 531377
Who is Home From Hospital for?
Home From Hospital in Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale is for adults who are being discharged home and need extra support. We help more than 2,000 people each year, significantly reducing hospital readmissions. This is a free service and helps those who:
- Are aged 18 and over
- Live in Bradford, Airedale and Wharfedale
- Are being discharged to their usual place of residence, following a hospital admission, day procedure or A&E visit
How do we help people?
The Home from Hospital team and volunteers ease the process of settling back home. They enable people to regain confidence and independence. Short term support is available, dependent on an individual’s needs and may include:
- Liaise with Health and Social Care professionals and other service providers to ensure ongoing support if needed
- Provide comprehensive information and signposting to ongoing support including welfare benefits
- Support with shopping assistance (for the most vulnerable/isolated)
- Keeping in touch welfare calls
We can’t support those who:
- Have complex long term care needs (including addiction and/or moderate to severe mental health issues)
- Only require respite care
- Are discharged to a temporary care setting
If you want help, please speak to your health professional and ask them to refer you to Home from Hospital.
Volunteer with Home From Hospital
Volunteers are vital to the success of Home From Hospital. They ensure that local people have support when they need it most. Could you spare a couple of hours a week to help people returning home after a hospital stay to feel more comfortable and supported? All our volunteers receive full training and on-going support throughout their work.
If you would like more information on becoming a volunteer please contact us on: 01274 531377 or use the website contact form.
We would have been in a real mess without HFH as we didn’t know how to access any services that my Dad needed. You have been brilliant and especially because we live away in Scarborough.
