Impact of private physio in hospital on discharge pathways

About stroke Discharge from hospital
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Does anyone know whether getting in a private physio to see a patient in hospital can negatively impact discharge pathway into respite and/ or a rehab unit?

Could it be seen that because we’re helping a patient pre-discharge they’re less likely to have a referral accepted at a respite facility?

My mum hasn’t had any rehab in hospital for weeks now (first because she was moved from pathway to rehab to home so the physios stopped working with her, and after a failed discharge and in another ward the hospital physios arent helping either). So we’re thinking of just getting a private physio in.

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hi Simon

My mum had a failed discharge and we believe we were badly misled by her stroke ward. So whilst she’s back in another ward, it’d be good to have her do some physio as the hospital physios aren’t able to be involved. But after our experiences with the stroke ward (lots of gas lighting, missing information, awful communication and I suspect even lies to get her out of the ward), we trust no one at the hospital.

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Thanks Simon. Based on an account of a good friend about the same ward, your suggestion about toxic influence seems to be spot on. And it’s very worrying.

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I think @SimonInEdinburgh has covered it all. If there is nothing happening at the moment then you have nothing to lose.

I suspect it is a resource issue with everything having to be prioritised meaning some miss out.

You are entitled to a 2nd opinion so might be worth asking for that if you haven’t already.

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Thanks. mum’s due for an assessment pre-discharge but that’s not the same thing as a second opinion so I’ll call the ward and ask.

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