Took 6 months to arrange an assessment.

Summary: Took 6 months to arrange an assessment.

Aintree hospital’s failure to discharge on time caused severe muscle wastage and Healthcare Acquired Infection's (HCI's) for both my parents. Confined them to bed for weeks, took weeks to arrange diagnostics and more weeks to arrange reablement care.

Sefton council took 6 months to arrange an assessment for my Mum after her hospital discharge. Aintree hospital discharged her to **** reablement unit, to a room with no shower or bath, where she saw a physio once a week at most and sat in her chair all day as her muscle wastage was so severe after 3 months confined to bed at Aintree hospital. After 3 months in the reablement unit, she discharged herself and family took time off work to help her out. She waited months for a community physio who saw her 3 times and discharged her.

*This review contained information which may be regarded as libellous and has been changed by Healthwatch Sefton prior to it being published