To check things out properly if you're suddenly ill?
I am struggling with this. Over the last three years mine has sent me home twice, with serious conditions (one very rare I admit). I complained the first time, was told things like "I seemed healthy and comfortable with painkillers" and that with regard to not being given tests required, "such facilities are not standing empty..and staff are only available on certain days" Not exactly reassuring then.
I have recently found that, the hospital is undergoing enforcement action from the Care Quality Commission, and that, the two winters when this happened to me, things were in pretty dire straits and several serious incidents had occurred. It seems, the hospital was similar to the Stafford one in that it was going for becoming a foundation trust and not focussing on patients. Care was described as 'unsafe'
Things seem to be improving, apparently they've had a lot of funding for A & E and have had some sort of help by a kind of intensive help service to improve A and E.
I think it's better to get a letter from the GP to bypass A and E and go straight to the assessment ward. However my GP in the past has not been great at this, I've been left and had to rush in in a bad state with no information.
Has anyone else had this kind of situation?
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LovelyBath · 08/02/2014 15:27
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