Nhs Problems.

[Caran]

My friend needs a heart valve replacement. She has been waiting for this procedure since January this year. Told her situation is critical and could drop dead any minute. She has had one appointment that was cancelled, she went into hospital last Tuesday, had all pre meds, Wednesday all gowned up and then told to go home. She is due to go in tomorrow again. She is so stressed about this, the hospital are already talking about putting her in a hotel overnight. The thought of her going in a hotel when she is so critical is scary. Where did all this NHS problems go wrong?

[murraymints]

Sqad..my uncle was "under" wheeled into op room and wheeled out again because an emergency presented..at Edinburgh Infirmary..he had to wait a further 3 days before he was taken back in....I was there when he was taken away after premeds waiting at the hospital to go back in later that night to visit, when I was shown into recovery ward a mere 30 mins after he was first taken away..it DOES happen !

[rowanwitch]

An itu bed can blow out at a minutes notice. It's possible but unlikely. Certainly cases have been cancelled once the patient has already arrived
the gas man

[Baldric]

Back in Aug '09 we lived just outside Dover. Bearing my previous career in mind I was reasonably fit. I collapsed in the town centre about 11:00 on a Friday, next thing I know was waking up in the HDU in St Thomas' on Monday afternoon having had an AVR as an emergency Friday afternoon which according to the Surgeon was "just in time"
I am now back to full fitness, have an annual check-up at Guys and am truely grateful to all concerned.

[New Judge]

"...not least letting someone live at the hospital for 15 months at the cost of 150 K all because her local council couldn't find her a suitable home,"

Their local council (North East Lincolnshire) could find them a home. Quotes from them: "The family has ignored offers of help from housing officials"; "We have tried to contact [them] a number of times but they have not We have accepted our legal obligations to provide accommodation for them and have a suitable property available." Their neighbours (in Grimsby) claimed that the mother and daughter were not evicted but simply refused to return there when they realised they could live rent free in a London hospital.

The daughter has enrolled in a college course in London and nurses at the hospital fetch their post to them each day. They are also provided with two meals a day. The fault for the failure to resolve this problem lies with the hospital management. They say they cannot discharged them (though only the daughter was ever a patient) because they have no home to go to. phone call to Grimsby would soon have dispelled that fantasy. And that's why hospitals are short of funds because their management teams are not doing what they are supposed to do.