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NHS gone to the dogs?[updated 12th May]
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Mersey | Report | 11 Mar 2013 19:37 |
Well said Ann I hope you get a reply..... |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 11 Mar 2013 19:44 |
well I sent it to the Daily Mail - think they are the kind of paper to print it - they've done one of my letters before |
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Phyll | Report | 11 Mar 2013 20:28 |
A strong letter to the Hospital Administrator wouldn't go amiss here. Seems there's one rule for us British and one for other creeds & cultures. |
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~`*`Jude`*`~ | Report | 11 Mar 2013 20:32 |
Wahooo .... blinky eck, hope that has happened cause of your letters:)) |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 11 Mar 2013 20:46 |
AnnC.. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 11 Mar 2013 21:00 |
It all sounds horribly familiar - I still feel sick and angry over the way a loved one was treated, over a period of 8 months until his death, by a certain hospital. Shocking. I hope your friend's daughter recovers soon <3 |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 11 Mar 2013 21:25 |
it's awful isn't it - I wrote to Lesley Griffiths regarding my son - no reply - but if and when I do get a response I shall be raising the question of my friend's daughter and the lack of the correct food, and also mention there is the same problem at Withybush Hospital in Pembrokeshire, according to a previous posting on here - unless we the users of the National Health Service do something about it nothing will be done and we'll get the service we deserve - I cannot sit on the fence on this one, especially as I am now in my late seventies and the likelihood of me ending up in hospital - please God I don't - is getting more likely |
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Merlin | Report | 12 Mar 2013 14:22 |
Roy, what you have wrote on here regarding Nurses Work stations would have gone down well on the show on TV.They called the Commedians, and you would have won.**M**. |
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supercrutch | Report | 12 Mar 2013 14:52 |
Please if anyone is going into hospital and has special requirements GET IT ENTERED INTO YOUR NOTES AND ASK YOUR RELLIES OR DO IT YOURSELF: WITH FELT PEN MARK ON THE INFO BOARD OVER YOUR BED: GLUTEN FREE, OR DIABETIC, OR ALLERGIC TO 'MUSHROOMS'. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 12 Mar 2013 15:54 |
supercrutch, Some very good valid points, My wife a nurse, also raises concerns about how some wards are mixed in relation to the different type of care patients require dependant on their condition, I'm sure she would love to give you all an insight into Facts about different wards and the levels of QUALIFIED staff and the care given or lack of, but as she works long hours and just collapses in a heap through exhaustion when she gets home from work i feel it would not be fair to ask her, So i pass on bits that i'm told when she has to use me to get things off her chest in order to keep her sanity, |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 12 Mar 2013 16:22 |
my Dad received appalling treatment in a now demolished hospital on the outskirts of Cardiff and I did not let them get away with it - after receiving my complaint they had a fit and contacted me to say that they wished to meet with my sister and I ASAP - well my sister lives in Hereford, so they said they would drive me to Hereford to meet with her to discuss what had happened. I declined the offer of a lift with them and we all met in the Chief Nursing Officer's office at the hospital where I was working at the time. Th outcome was that the sister in charge of my Dad;s ward was severely reprimanded - although she excused her behaviour by saying that her husband had recently died!!! If patients, particularly elderly, have no one to speak for them, anything can happen and we should all be aware of that - the culture on some wards emanates from the top |
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supercrutch | Report | 12 Mar 2013 16:30 |
Roy, I certainly wouldn't tar them all with the same brush. Night staff are often comprised of agency nurses. I am going to keep quiet about some I have suffered dire care from. |
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Kay???? | Report | 12 Mar 2013 18:23 |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 13 Mar 2013 05:58 |
Years back when I was in hospital, I was constantly disturbed at night by nattering nurses at the station, I heard all about one nurses labour experiences when she had her baby, and another one went on and on about her recent holiday. I was in a large ward by myself as the others had gone home so I would close the door, they would open it again but I said if you lot didn't make so much noise I wouldn't need to shut it. Oh but we need it open says they,. I made a complaint when I got out - no mobile phone then and couldn't ring when too many people in earshot - so I phoned the hospital when I got home and told them what I and others had thought, that the constant nattering disturbed everyone's sleep. I was assured something would be done about it but a few years on when I was admitted again, the same thing happened. Ridiculous and selfish of the nurses not to realise how noisy they were. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 14 Mar 2013 12:21 |
friend's daughter is doing remarkably well - she is home and very upbeat |
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vera2010 | Report | 14 Mar 2013 12:39 |
I have been in hospital a few times and not recently. Only on 2 occasions have I witnessed poor care and only once have witnessed lack of care at a serious level. However, both patients were very elderly. |
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Merlin | Report | 14 Mar 2013 13:48 |
Roy, the whole of your post on 11th march at14.15. thats the joke **M** |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 14 Mar 2013 13:56 |
Merlin, If you think my post on 11th march at14.15 is a joke then as i said in my post 12 Mar 2013 15:54 could you explain what you found so funny, |
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Merlin | Report | 14 Mar 2013 14:07 |
The Hospital you go into must be very special as most of them I have been in are uesless,If you complain about the way you are being treatedor the patient is being treated,they suffer,they gather round the nurse station basicly nattering and ignoring the buzzers from patients requiring help,I,ve even seen them playing games on the computor there as for extra work sorry not on,a few meybe do their job but lots do not.In my opinion there are far to many nursing auxilaries being used instead of what used to be SENs,at least they had some qualifications.As for repeating myself, just read your post again,then you will see what I find as funny. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 14 Mar 2013 14:35 |
Merlin, Your point about nursing auxiliaries is more than valid, As i keep saying on most threads related to Nurses, Their are never enough "QUALIFIED" but nursing auxiliaries do have some qualifications similar to the old SEN's which where made redundant, Nurses today are "RGN's" the qualification of nurses today which includes parts of the doctors qualification so they are far more qualified than SEN's ever where, This is why as i said they have far more responsibility and a greater work load because they are effectively doing both the old SEN's job and part of the doctors job rolled into one, Could you give the name of the hospitals and wards you refer to because im sure my wife would love a job in such a hospital, She works for one hospital her main job, and does extra hours in two more hospital and never even gets time to have her break let alone chat or play computer games, Often doing a 15 hour shift with no break and to add insult to injury they still take 1 hour off their pay because it is assumed that they took a break even when it's documented that they did not, and another thing they don't get paid an overtime rate either |