Information for inpatients
If you are coming into hospital, please bring the items listed below. This will help make your stay more comfortable.
Medicines
Please bring all medicines that you use, including:
- Tablets
- Inhalers
- Creams
- Eye drops
- Any other prescribed medicines
Keep medicines in their original packaging if possible. Ward staff must be informed on frequency and dosage.
Clothes
Our wards cannot be the same temperature as each individual patient is used to in their own residence. You may wish to prepare for it being warmer or cooler than you are used to.
Please initially bring:
- Day clothes
- Comfortable shoes
- Night clothes or pyjamas
- Slippers
- Dressing gown
- Underwear, including tights or stockings if needed
- Outdoor coat (if access to patient garden is conducive to your care)*
*Dependent of specific hospital outdoor facilities, care package and staffing.
Toiletries
Please bring your own toiletries, including:
- Toothbrush and toothpaste
- Soap or shower gel
- Shampoo
- Conditioner
- Hairbrush or comb
- Face flannel
- Denture products, if needed
- Paper tissues
- Sanitary products, if needed
Other items
If you use any of the following, please bring them with you:
- Dentures
- Shaving equipment
- Walking stick or walking frame
- Hearing aid and spare batteries to cover your stay
- Continence aids
- Special shoes
- Glasses or spectacles (with case/cloth)
- Appointment cards
- Writing materials including paper, envelopes and stamps
- Books or magazines
- Anything else important for your personal needs
Laundry
Community hospitals do not usually provide a laundry service for patients. In special circumstances, staff may be able to help.
Money and valuables
Please do not bring large amounts of money or valuable items into hospital.
If you need to bring valuables with you, speak to your nurse. They can arrange safe storage and give you a receipt.
If bringing electrical devices such as music playing items with headphones, please check with ward staff first. They may not be in a fit condition to be used whilst staying on the ward. Thus, you may refused use of said equipment on health and safety grounds.
The hospital cannot accept responsibility for money or valuables that are not handed in for safe keeping.
Smoking and Vaping
All community hospitals are smoke-free.
Smoking and vaping are not allowed anywhere in the hospital, grounds or car parks. This helps protect the health and safety of our patients, visitors and staff.
If you would like support to stop smoking or vaping, please speak to a member of your care team.