Welcome to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning hospital and community services trust providing high quality, personalised, acute, elective, specialist and community care for a population of over 200,000 people. Our catchment population stretches as far as the Yorkshire Dales and the National Park in North Yorkshire, reaching areas of North Bradford and Guiseley in West Yorkshire and extending into Colne and Pendle in the East of Lancashire. We provide services from our main hospital site, Airedale Hospital and at other locations across the community – such as Castleberg Hospital near Settle, Coronation Hospital in Ilkley and Skipton Hospital. We are also part of the Bradford District and Craven place and West Yorkshire and Harrogate Integrated Care System.
Being discharged – what happens? Discharge Lounge Here at Airedale we have a Discharge Lounge and each day suitable patients may be transferred to the discharge lounge as a normal part of the discharge process. We have a designated discharge team that will be responsible for the final stages of your discharge from hospital and they will ensure that this is completed as soon as reasonably possible to ensure that your discharge experience is a positive one. Here’s what the Discharge Lounge can do… • We will help get patients ready 4
and pack them up • We can help book transport for patients • We take community transfers and we can accommodate stretcher patients • We can help Acute Assessment Unit and Emergency Department
short stay patients • We provide District Nurse referrals (except for wounds) • We can offer refreshments and light meals • All patients are safely taken to relatives at the main entrance
