Too many people end up back in hospital in the weeks after going home.
Discharge instructions are often written for doctors, not patients. Appointments slip, and questions come up with no one to ask. Constance is a Melbourne team working on the weeks between hospital and home.
1 in 5 unplanned readmissions within 30 days were potentially avoidable
General medicine patients at one South Australian hospital, 2022 data. Sharma et al., Australian Health Review, 2025.
