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Help leaving hospital

Services

We will try our best to offer you and your family any services you need as soon as possible. However, there are often many more people needing help than there are services to give. This means that although everyone is agreed that you need a service, it might not be available at the time.

If this happens, we will always try to find an alternative, but we cannot guarantee to provide a particular service.

Cost of services

Whilst Community Health (NHS) Services are generally free, the costs of services arranged by Calderdale Adults, Health and Social Care vary. Some are free. Some services such as Frozen Meals have a fixed charge. Home Care and other related services are charged for according to your ability to pay and the amount of service you receive.

If you arrange other services yourself, to be provided directly to you by a company or a voluntary group, you should make sure you understand their charges and are able to pay.

If, once you are home, you are going to need ten or more hours of social care service each week, then Adults, Health and Social Care may be able to provide money to pay for the services in your Care Plan so that you can arrange these for yourself. This is known as Direct Payments.

If you cannot return to your own home

If you need to move from hospital into a residential care or nursing care home we can give you advice on how to do this, and on the costs involved.

Adults, Health and Social Care funds a limited number of places in these homes, based on an assessment of your needs and finances.

A few people leaving hospital are eligible for NHS funded continuing care. Details of the criteria for this are available from NHS Calderdale.

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