SOME patients are waiting too long to be discharged from Oxfordshire hospitals, a patients’ group has claimed.

And almost a quarter of county GPs think the quality of paperwork sent from hospital departments is poor, according to the group’s research.

Patient Voice, which has been researching discharge procedures at the John Radcliffe, Horton, and Churchill Hospitals, said their survey of 54 patients and 21 GP practices across Oxfordshire found 50 per cent of the patients were dissatisfied with their discharge procedure.

Of the GP surgeries, only three said they were satisfied with the current system.

The report will be presented to the joint health overview and scrutiny committee at County Hall today.

Last night a spokesman for the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital Trust (ORH) said: “Although this latest survey is small, it nonetheless raises some interesting points, some of which we are already addressing.”