Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

The majority of people are able to return home following a stay in hospital without any additional support. If you feel you or your family member will require support to return home, please speak with the ward team who will be able to discuss your options with you.

Where necessary, the ward team will work with our Integrated Discharge Team to support you in developing a plan so you can be discharged home, as quickly and as smoothly as possible. This guide explains how our team will help you, the role of our multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and how we work together to help with your discharge from hospital.

Deafconnect’s Hard of Hearing Service offers support and advice to over 100,000 hard of hearing and deafened adults of all ages, with or without aids, across Northamptonshire, either at the community centre or in their own home. It is being funded for 5 years by the Big Lottery Fund. 1 in 6 people in the UK are hard of hearing or deafened. We are supporting the NHS who recognise that isolation and loneliness has a detrimental effect on mental health and wellbeing.

We aim to: • Provide information and advice to adults of any age who have hearing loss, with or without aids, to promote independence, health and wellbeing. • Provide information and advice on audio assistive equipment and lip reading classes to

maintain quality of life. • Provide coping tactics and strategies for everyday life to reduce isolation and loneliness and gain confidence. • Visit care homes to help support the use and maintenance of hearing aids and promote deaf awareness.

• Promote deaf awareness to family and friends to maintain and improve communication, support them to learn how to keep in contact via Next Generation Texting and how to use equipment etc. • Set up self help social support groups across the county. If you need advice or information or would like to book an appointment, please contact us at:

The Hard of Hearing Service, Deafconnect, Spencer Dallington Community Centre, Tintern Avenue, Northampton, NN5 7BZ.

Telephone: 01604 589011 Text: 07506 621867

Email: hardofhearingservice@deafconnect.org.uk Website: www.deafconnect.org.uk