Whether an injury or illness required hospitalisation or not, there are extensive rehabilitation measures in place to ensure that a patient can resume both home and work life as soon as possible. The details of the rehabilitation will obviously depend on the nature of the illness or injury and the hospital that treated you will be responsible for managing it. Specialists involved may include doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, welfare officers, psychologists and speech therapists.

According to the Stockholm health authority, it is even possible to get referred for rehabilitation to warmer climates for certain conditions. Although we have met someone prescribed this treatment, we don’t know how often this happens in reality – a promise of a Mediterranean holiday would be enough to exacerbate even the mildest cold.