Independent living > Home from hospital services

Home from hospital services provide extra support to elderly people who have been discharged home from hospital following surgery, ill health, or an accident. They are short term aftercare services for people when they return home from hospital, and can offer flexible short term practical help to assist with most day-to-day tasks, such as emotional support, food preparation, shopping, laundry, light domestic duties, and help with claiming benefits and form filling. Most services last for no more than a few weeks, and are provided for older people by different organisations such as Health services, Adult Social Care Services, voluntary agencies and commercial companies. Discharge from hospital services help older people to regain confidence and re-adjust to living at home.

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Independent living > Home from hospital services services in England

Bedfordshire (26)
Bedford (21) Luton (19) Mid Bedfordshire (20) South Bedfordshire (20)

Berkshire (33)
Bracknell Forest (24) Reading (22) Slough (25) West Berkshire (22) Windsor and Maidenhead (24) Wokingham (24)

Buckinghamshire (27)
Aylesbury Vale (19) Chiltern (21) Milton Keynes (21) South Bucks (22) Wycombe (21)

Cambridgeshire (25)
Cambridge (21) East Cambridgeshire (22) Fenland (21) Huntingdonshire (21) Peterborough (19) South Cambridgeshire (21)

Channel Islands (15)
Guernsey (15) Jersey (15)

Cheshire (23)
Chester (18) Congleton (20) Crewe and Nantwich (20) Ellesmere Port and Neston (18) Halton (17) Macclesfield (20) Vale Royal (19) Warrington (17)

Cornwall (20)
Caradon (18) Carrick (20) Isles of Scilly (17) Kerrier (20) North Cornwall (18) Penwith (20) Restormel (18)

Cumbria (17)
Allerdale (15) Barrow-in-Furness (16) Carlisle (15) Copeland (15) Eden (15) South Lakeland (17)

Derbyshire (31)
Amber Valley (23) Bolsover (22) Chesterfield (20) Derby (24) Derbyshire Dales (25) Erewash (23) High Peak (22) North East Derbyshire (22) South Derbyshire (21)

Devon (23)
East Devon (19) Exeter (21) Mid Devon (19) North Devon (20) Plymouth (19) South Hams (19) Teignbridge (19) Torbay (19) Torridge (20) West Devon (19)

Dorset (32)
Bournemouth (27) Christchurch (28) East Dorset (23) North Dorset (24) Poole (29) Purbeck (23) West Dorset (24) Weymouth & Portland (21)

Durham (21)
Chester-le-Street (17) Darlington (17) Derwentside (17) Durham (18) Easington (17) Hartlepool (17) Sedgefield (17) Stockton-on-Tees (18) Teesdale (17) Wear Valley (17)

East Riding of Yorkshire (19)
East Riding of Yorkshire (18) Kingston upon Hull (19)

East Sussex (28)
Brighton & Hove (21) Eastbourne (20) Hastings (20) Lewes (22) Rother (21) Wealden (20)

Essex (31)
Basildon (20) Braintree (23) Brentwood (20) Castle point (21) Chelmsford (20) Colchester (21) Epping Forest (20) Harlow (17) Maldon (22) Rochford (20) Southend-on-Sea (21) Tendring (19) Thurrock (22) Uttlesford (21)

Gloucestershire (27)
Cheltenham (19) Cotswold (21) Forest of Dean (19) Gloucester (19) South Gloucestershire (22) Stroud (20) Tewkesbury (18)

Greater London (82)
Barking & Dagenham (23) Barnet (26) Bexley (24) Brent (27) Bromley (26) Camden (24) City of London (24) Croydon (27) Ealing (26) Enfield (21) Greenwich (26) Hackney (23) Hammersmith & Fulham (24) Haringey (23) Harrow (27) Havering (24) Hillingdon (26) Hounslow (23) Islington (24) Kensington and Chelsea (25) Kingston upon Thames (29) Lambeth (25) Lewisham (26) Merton (28) Newham (22) Redbridge (24) Richmond upon Thames (27) Southwark (24) Sutton (26) Tower Hamlets (24) Waltham Forest (24) Wandsworth (27) Westminster (23)

Greater Manchester (30)
Bolton (22) Bury (22) Manchester (20) Oldham (20) Rochdale (21) Salford (21) Stockport (20) Tameside (20) Trafford (18) Wigan (18)

Hampshire (28)
Basingstoke and Deane (23) East Hampshire (23) Eastleigh (22) Fareham (22) Gosport (22) Hart (24) Havant (22) New Forest (25) Portsmouth (22) Rushmoor (24) Southampton (21) Test Valley (24) Winchester (23)

Herefordshire (16)
Herefordshire (16)

Hertfordshire (27)
Broxbourne (21) Dacorum (25) East Hertfordshire (21) Hertsmere (23) North Hertfordshire (23) St Albans (23) Stevenage (21) Three Rivers (25) Watford (23) Welwyn Hatfield (21)

Isle of Man (14)
Isle of Man (14)

Isle of Wight (20)
Isle of Wight (20)

Kent (33)
Ashford (21) Canterbury (22) Dartford (29) Dover (21) Gravesham (27) Maidstone (23) Medway (25) Sevenoaks (26) Shepway (21) Swale (24) Thanet (21) Tonbridge & Malling (24) Tunbridge Wells (21)

Lancashire (26)
Blackburn with Darwen (18) Blackpool (18) Burnley (20) Chorley (20) Fylde (18) Hyndburn (19) Lancaster (19) Pendle (19) Preston (19) Ribble Valley (19) Rossendale (19) South Ribble (19) West Lancashire (18) Wyre (18)

Leicestershire (24)
Blaby (22) Charnwood (23) Harborough (23) Hinckley & Bosworth (22) Leicester (22) Melton (23) North West Leicestershire (21) Oadby & Wigston (22) Rutland (23)

Lincolnshire (23)
Boston (16) East Lindsey (16) Lincoln (16) North East Lincolnshire (17) North Kesteven (16) North Lincolnshire (17) South Holland (18) South Kesteven (18) West Lindsey (16)

Merseyside (18)
Knowsley (16) Liverpool (16) Sefton (16) St Helens (16) Wirral (16)

Norfolk (21)
Breckland (18) Broadland (17) Great Yarmouth (17) Kings Lynn and West Norfolk (19) North Norfolk (17) Norwich (17) South Norfolk (18)

North Yorkshire (31)
Craven (24) Hambleton (24) Harrogate (26) Middlesbrough (23) Redcar & Cleveland (23) Richmondshire (24) Ryedale (21) Scarborough (21) Selby (23) York (22)

Northamptonshire (30)
Corby (27) Daventry (27) East Northamptonshire (26) Kettering (28) Northampton (25) South Northamptonshire (26) Wellingborough (26)

Northumberland (16)
Alnwick (16) Berwick-upon-Tweed (16) Blyth Valley (15) Castle Morpeth (15) Tynedale (16) Wansbeck (15)

Nottinghamshire (29)
Ashfield (26) Bassetlaw (25) Broxtowe (26) Gedling (25) Mansfield (25) Newark and Sherwood (25) Nottingham (27) Rushcliffe (25)

Oxfordshire (19)
Cherwell (18) Oxford (18) South Oxfordshire (19) Vale of White Horse (17) West Oxfordshire (17)

Shropshire (26)
Bridgnorth (21) North Shropshire (21) Oswestry (19) Shrewsbury and Atcham (19) South Shropshire (20) Telford & Wrekin (23)

Somerset (33)
Bath & North East Somerset (25) Bristol (24) Mendip (22) North Somerset (25) Sedgemoor (22) South Somerset (21) Taunton Deane (21) West Somerset (20)

South Yorkshire (24)
Barnsley (21) Doncaster (22) Rotherham (21) Sheffield (20)

Staffordshire (27)
Cannock Chase (21) East Staffordshire (23) Lichfield (23) Newcastle-under-Lyme (21) South Staffordshire (23) Stafford (22) Staffordshire Moorlands (21) Stoke-on-Trent (19) Tamworth (20)

Suffolk (24)
Babergh (20) Forest Heath (19) Ipswich (18) Mid Suffolk (20) St Edmundsbury (19) Suffolk Coastal (17) Waveney (18)

Surrey (31)
Elmbridge (23) Epsom and Ewell (21) Guildford (22) Mole Valley (21) Reigate & Banstead (22) Runnymede (22) Spelthorne (20) Surrey Heath (22) Tandridge (21) Waverley (22) Woking (23)

Tyne and Wear (20)
Gateshead (17) Newcastle upon Tyne (15) North Tyneside (16) South Tyneside (16) Sunderland (17)

Warwickshire (21)
North Warwickshire (19) Nuneaton & Bedworth (19) Rugby (19) Stratford-on-Avon (21) Warwick (21)

West Midlands (35)
Birmingham (29) Coventry (24) Dudley (25) Sandwell (25) Solihull (23) Walsall (26) Wolverhampton (28)

West Sussex (24)
Adur (19) Arun (20) Chichester (20) Crawley (20) Horsham (21) Mid Sussex (21) Worthing (20)

West Yorkshire (27)
Bradford (22) Calderdale (22) Kirklees (22) Leeds (23) Wakefield (22)

Wiltshire (24)
Kennet (21) North Wiltshire (22) Salisbury (21) Swindon (21) West Wiltshire (22)

Worcestershire (26)
Bromsgrove (24) Malvern Hills (21) Redditch (23) Worcester (21) Wychavon (22) Wyre Forest (24)

Independent living > Home from hospital services services in Scotland

Aberdeen (11) Aberdeenshire (12) Angus (12) Argyll & Bute (11) Clackmannanshire (11) Dumfries & Galloway (11) Dundee (11) East Ayrshire (11) East Dunbartonshire (12) East Lothian (12) East Renfrewshire (11) Edinburgh (11) Eilean Siar / Western Isles (12) Falkirk (12) Fife (12) Glasgow (13) Highland (12) Inverclyde (11) Midlothian (11) Moray (11) North Ayrshire (11) North Lanarkshire (11) Orkney Islands (12) Perth & Kinross (11) Renfrewshire (11) Scottish Borders (11) Shetland Islands (11) South Ayrshire (12) South Lanarkshire (11) Stirling (12) West Dunbartonshire (11) West Lothian (11)

Independent living > Home from hospital services services in Wales

Anglesey (10) Blaenau Gwent (12) Bridgend (10) Caerphilly (12) Cardiff (11) Carmarthenshire (11) Ceredigion (11) Conwy (10) Denbighshire (10) Flintshire (10) Gwynedd (10) Merthyr Tydfil (12) Monmouthshire (11) Neath Port Talbot (10) Newport (11) Pembrokeshire (11) Powys (11) Rhondda Cynon Taff (12) Swansea (11) Torfaen (11) Vale of Glamorgan (11) Wrexham (10)

Independent living > Home from hospital services services in Northern Ireland

Antrim (3) Armagh (3) Belfast (3) Down (3) Fermanagh (3) Londonderry (3) Tyrone (3)