The Health and Care passport is a useful document. It is offered to people with a learning disability in the community and when they come into hospital.
It helps the hospital team understand more about you.
Your hospital passport can help staff to support you, by providing useful information:
- About how best to communicate.
- Likes and dislikes you may have.
- What makes you worried and upset.
- What help you usually need at home.
We encourage you to complete a hospital passport and bring it with you to hospital.
Please share it with hospital staff if you are coming into hospital to stay, or if you are attending an appointment.
Make sure you take it home with you when you leave hospital because it is your document.
It should be kept up to date with any changes added. We are using the Health and Care Passport which looks like this:
Download your 'Health and Care Passport' here
There are other hospital passports that people use. It doesn’t matter which type of hospital passport you bring with you. The important thing is that you share useful information with hospital staff.
If you are Autistic and don’t have a learning disability, the National Autistic Society Health Passport may be useful for you to complete. It looks like this:
Download your 'My Health Passport' here
It is helpful to email completed health passports to the team. Here is our email address: stsft.ldautismacute@nhs.net
Please call the team to discuss how to email your passport. You can find our contact details by clicking here
You can find guidance for the Autism Health Passport by clicking here
The passports are an editable PDF that can be completed electronically or printed and completed as a paper version.
