Horrible hospitals

[carolegif]

My son-in-laws mother fell and broke her shoulder and hip on Sunday early evening. She is still waiting to go down to theatre!!
They have put her on a spinal board, dosed her up on morphine and left her.
It is an absolute disgrace, she was an active 70 year old but who knows what will happen after this.

Daughter is going to complain if she is not seen to tonight. So much for Mr Cameron and the improving NHS.

[craft1948]

So you're blaming Mr Cameron for this................nothing to do with the years of declining service when Labour were in then. (I hope she gets the treatment she needs)

[carolegif]

No I'm not blaming Mr Cameron. This hospital has a history and has been closed twice! But he does keep going on about how the NHS is improving and I can't see it. Waiting times have lengthened and two friends have been given the choice of being diagnosed with a serious disease immediatley if they pay £1700 to the local private hospital or waiting 3 months for the NHS. One had motor neurons disease and if had gone to the NHS wouldn't be diagnosed yet, and he is now in a wheelchair!

[emmie]

don't blame Cameron, was he there and responsible, he is not staff, this is not about cuts, but about negligence. I could say the same ten times over about the appalling treatment i have received and other family members when Labour were in power. It's the uncaring side of medicine now that's at fault. Blame the bloody hospital and staff.

[Sqad]

////Daughter is going to complain if she is not seen to tonight. So much for Mr Cameron and the improving NHS.///

Don't be silly.

Now for whatever reason, that is an unacceptable standard of healthcare.
Ask the ward sister (if there still is such a thing)to explain the delay.

[carolegif]

She isn't in a ward yet, that's the point she is in some transit area waiting to go down to theatre.

Perhaps Mr Cameron should keep quiet until all the problems have been ironed out. Some hospitals are great but some are appalling.

[icemaiden]

I'm shocked at your story carolegif. How awful for your her to be left like that.

The problem with the NHS is they cannot cope with all the immigrants in England. That also goes for Schools,Doctors surgerys, etc. All bursting at the seams!
It makes me so angry that the very people who fought for this country are being treated with so little respect.

Disgraceful.

[daffy654]

Just spoken to a nurse friend of mine who says sometimes they delay the treatment of hip fractures for a day or two to allow the swelling to subside, so helping to achieve a better outcome for the patient.

[Sqad]

I can understand delaying surgery to control underlying conditions, e.g diabetes or heart failure.............but to wait for the swelling to go down????????

[daffy654]

Apparently (I know nothing about these things myself) it is easier to manipulate the bones when the swelling has lessened slightly.

[Sqad]

Didn't know that...........

[emmie]

Carolg the problems with the NHS would take the brains of Einstein the cash of Donald Trump, and all worlds billionaires to resolve and even then it wouldn't work. You can throw all the cash at it, but if the staff don't give a s*it, then what do you do. Having witnessed my mothers treatment, i can safely say that the staff were at fault for her prolonged stay. Dithering, useless, and uncaring, just some of the words i would be allowed to use.
I hope that she gets better care from now on. Try the patients complaints department if the hospital has one.

[joko]

maybe they just had lots of people who were, you know, actually dying, and needed treatment first to save their lives?
Stuff like heart attacks, strokes, brain haemorrhages, clots, cancer, transplants, organ failure, severe injury etc etc

i agree its horrible for her to still be waiting, and i hope she gets its sorted soon...but its just a few broken bones - its not life threatening and waiting wont make it any worse...she cannot just jump the queue.

its only actually been 1 and a half days too...you make it sound like a week or more has passed.

[Sqad]

joko.

\\\maybe they just had lots of people who were, you know, actually dying, and needed treatment first to save their lives?
Stuff like heart attacks, strokes, brain haemorrhages, clots, cancer, transplants, organ failure, severe injury etc etc \\

All come in in the last 48 hours and some needing surgery?

naaaah!

[daffy654]

Joko, a broken hip/pelvis can be life threatening. There are quite a few major blood vessels in the pelvic area as well as things such as the bladder. I'm sure if this lady was in any danger from her injuries she would have had her surgery by now though. It must be distressing to be left and to not know when her surgery is going to be.

[joko]

sqad, i didnt mean all of them at once and you know it.

i was just making the point that there are more important problems in a hospital that need priority treatment...

clearly something has prevented her being operated on sooner and presumably they felt it more important than a broken hip.

daffy, yes on rare occasions...i presume they know that know...

[emmie]

Sqad if you are in A&E in a London hospital that's a different story. All life and death is there, and having witnessed some truly shocking behaviour by the louts rolling in drunk, drugged up and worse, think it's time there was a separate area for these twits who take up so much room in A&E.
It's needed for the seriously ill people who arrive minute by minute.

[Postdog]

So you're blaming Labour. Nothing to do with the years of declining service started by Thatcher, when my mum was left for 8 hours on a trolley in a corridor waiting to get a bed. Given that she died 3 days later I was not happy about this.

To the OP though, I hope you get satisfaction.

[carolegif]

Father in law went to visit at 2pm this afternoon and she was still there, so he made a fuss and said that either she went down immediately or he was going to report the hospital and have her taken to another hospital in the area. within an hour she was in theatre!
Obviously you have to fight your corner.

[Mamyalynne]

So glad to hear that, I think a lot of times it is the lack of communication that frustrates us so in these situations.