New Action Plan to Get Medically Fit People Home from Hospital

Published on: 29 Oct, 2025
Updated on: 29 Oct, 2025

A new plan of action is being launched across the boroughs of Guildford and Waverley to help hospital patients who are well enough to go home, or into appropriate care, especially during the winter.

The Royal Surrey Hospital.

Working with health and care providers will be the Guildford and Waverley Transfer of Care Hub.

It will host a daily multi-agency meeting, agree on care and support plans, set planned discharge dates, and aims to remove barriers to the discharge of patients.

It also plans to support a range of patient needs, making sure each person moves into the right community setting with the right support in place.

The Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership has launched the new service, saying the care hub “marks a significant step forward in how we co-ordinate care across the Guildford and Waverley health and care system”.

It adds: “It brings together colleagues from [the] Royal Surrey [Hospital], community health services, social care, housing, and the voluntary sector into one integrated team, all working towards faster, safer, and more ‘person-centred’ hospital discharges.”

It also aims to ease pressure on the A&E department at the Royal Surrey Hospital, and “improve overall flow of patients through the system”, once usually referred to at the patient discharge stage as bed-blocking.

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