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16. Discharge A patient may only be discharged home with a NPWT pump following discussion with the patient’s consultant and/or the TVN. The team responsible for the patient will ensure that prior to discharge: • Agreement is obtained from the relevant GP / community nursing team that they will assume responsibility for the NPWT. Ward staff should contact the community teams with plenty of notice if a discharge is imminent. At least 48 hours’ notice is usually required. • The RUH TVN is contacted with the following details: o Type of unit in use including rental number o Type of dressing in use o Expected discharge date o Type of wound o Any relevant medical/surgical history • The TVN will contact the relevant community tissue viability team to agree funding the therapy. • Patients will not be discharged with RUH owned pumps. Those patients with a trust owned pump will be allocated a rental pump. • The relevant company is informed on the day of discharge, in order to cancel / transfer the rental agreement. • The patient is discharged home with enough consumables to enable two complete changes of NPWT dressings. Document name: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) Ref.: 745 Issue date: 10 June 2013 Status: Approved Author: Kate Purser and Nicola Heywood Page 14 of 20
17. Who to contact for further help/information • Tissue Viability Nurse: Ext. 1112/1837 or page through switchboard • KCI helpline (24 hours – 0800 980 8880) • Tissue Viability intranet site: http://webserver.ruhbath.swest.nhs.uk/clinical_directory/clinical_depts/tissue_viability/index.asp menu_id=10 18. Monitoring Compliance The Tissue Viability service will review any incidents of non-concordance with this policy. Key themes of any non-concordance will be reported to Divisional Governance Meetings. Ward managers have a responsibility to ensure that all staff under their supervision are concordant with this policy. RUH employees have a responsibility to ensure that they follow RUH policies and protocols in order that their care is based on the best available evidence and, as such, risks are minimised. 19. Review This policy will be in effect for three years, unless otherwise stated. Prior to the third anniversary of the policy the author will be asked to review it and make any necessary changes prior to further ratification. Document name: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) Ref.: 745 Issue date: 10 June 2013 Status: Approved Author: Kate Purser and Nicola Heywood Page 15 of 20
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