Who is this for?

• Your Hospital Guides are for people with disability and their support networks
• My Hospital Pack is for people with disability, their support networks, health service providers, and disability service providers
• Service Provider resources are for disability services and mental health organisations
• Health professional resources are for clinicians and hospital service providers

Your Hospital Guides

Your Hospital Guides 1-7 are available in booklet, easy print, Easy Read and Accessible Word versions:

1. Be prepared for a hospital stay
2. Your hospital stay
3. Decision making during a hospital stay
4. Discharge planning checklist
5. Your discharge summary
6. After your hospital stay
7. NDIS basics

The My Hospital Pack is an easy-to-use envelope template (interactive and standard) with two checklists: 

• Ready for Hospital - to be completed in the community (for example: at home)
• Ready for Home - to be completed by hospital staff as a discharge tool

The My Hospital Pack can be used to prepare and store essential information in case of a hospital stay – planned or unplanned.

A user guide - How to use My Hospital Pack - is available in accessible Word, e-braille and pdf versions.

Special thanks to:

• Daniel Sonnabend, Kylie Mucciarone, Lindy Johnson, Lisa Holliday, Lou Wilson, Mark Blowers, Rowan Rovere, and Yvonne Huntley – the co-design team behind the Your Hospital Guides, and
• Ahanacare, BGSR, Cocoon SDA Homes, Joondalup Health Campus, Perth Healthcare and Support Enterprise, WA Blue Sky and Yesability who co-developed and trialled the My Hospital Pack

Ready to Go Home, an NDS and Department of Health WA partner project, is funded by the Australian Government Department for Social Services. Go to dss.gov.au for more information.

Relevant Resources

• Disability-Health Connect Resource Catalogue