Hospital passport
Welcome to UH Bristol's Children's Hospital Passport, a
document to help children with disabilities when going to
hospital. The aim of the
Hospital Passport is to
provide our staff with information about your child during a
hospital visit. This information will help us work in
partnership with you in meeting your child's needs when using our
hospital services.
The Hospital Passport uses a traffic light system. This
means that all essential information about your child must be
written in the red section, this will alert staff to any extremely
important information or specific requirements your child might
have. The amber section is for important information about
your child's day-to-day activities. Preferable information
about your child's like and dislikes can be documented in the green
section.
Download the
Hospital Passport here. This document requires Adobe
Reader 8 or above. To view this document, please download Adobe
Reader from http://www.adobe.com/uk/.
It is an editable PDF, although we are currently experiencing
problems with completing the form using a Mac computer.
If you decide to return the Hospital Passport to us
electronically you will first need to save the completed document
to your computer. Then you will need to send an e-mail to childrenshospitalpassport@uhbristol.nhs.uk and
add the Hospital Passport as an attachment. You will
then receive an automated response informing you that we have
received your e-mail. Please be aware that you will
be e-mailing confidential information about your child and the
e-mail you send is only as secure as the service provider you use.
If you do not receive confirmation from us then please
contact us.
We will try to have the Hospital Passport to hand when
your child arrives. However, there may be situations where
this is not possible so please let staff know if your child has one
and ask for a copy to be printed.
We ask that you keep your child's hospital passport
up-to-date. As a guide we recommend:
- Children under 5 years of age - review every 6 months,
update if necessary and email the updated copy to us.
- Children over 5 years of age - annual review, update if
necessary and email the updated copy to us.
Further information can be found on page 4 of the Hospital
Passport. If you have difficulty completing it or require a
paper copy please contact Liaise at Bristol Royal Hospital for
Children on: 0117 342 8065 or the Children's Disability Nurse on:
0117 342 8653.
