Since when did playing music through speakers be OK on a hospital ward?

I wonder if there’s ever been a study to show the correlation between IQ and media tastes. I mean, you never hear anyone blasting a decent podcast or a bit of Fleetwood Mac do you? It’s always shitty grime music or Tik Tok shite.

I had a bloke doing this on my bay during the week . It seems everything has fallen apart and anyone isn't a woman can do what they like . Just watching TV on laptop without a care for anyone else . Blokes can do what they like in hospital now , even getting changed without closing curtains .

That's old school!

Did you complain to anyone?

I'm glad I'm old. I'd have said something and turned it off again.

At least any hospital stay I've had was pre-mobile and tablet days, thank god

Well, clearly some people disturbed others...

That gave me the chill reading that! At least when inconsiderate people do that in public there is a chance to move. In a hospital bed🙈🙈🙈 you are stuck, feeling crap and then seething at the bad manners of those around you. I hope your wife gets out soon.

Well, they won't be donating their brain, as obviously they don't have one.

And they don't have a heart, as they don't seem to consider other people.

But anything else should be up for grabs, no questions asked. 😁

OP, I hope your wife makes a fabulous recovery and she's back home in no time 🌷

I agree with bringing back matrons, but on all wards. From my experience, nurses treat their work as secondary to their socialising.
I had my hip replaced in 2012, when I was 42 (it's due again soon and I'm dreading it).
I was on a ward of 6 beds, all elederly people, so I didn't have to videos/music/mobile calls. On the night of my morning op, I couldn't move without help and I woke up needing the bed pan. I rang the call button, a nurse eventually came, even though I was in sight of the nurses station and she looked over at me. She asked what I wanted and I said I needed help and a bedpan as I was desperate for a wee. I'll be back in a minute, she said. Then she returned to the nurses station and stood chatting. She even moved out of my view as I kept looking across in desperation, but I could still hear her chatting!
Ten minutes later and too late by that point, she came back. Then she was arsey with me for having wet myself and the bed! She said I could have waited and she wasn't that long! (I'd had an epidural and my feeling wasn't quite back at that point. I was also on a heavy dose of morphine. If I'd been totally with it, I'd have complained!)
I apologised profusely, but I felt embarrassed and ashamed as she moaned and tutted while cleaning up! After she'd done, she stormed back to the nurses station to resume her socialising and I was left upset and just wanting to go home.
It's disgusting that a lot of nurses clearly have no compassion for the people who they are supposed to be caring for!
Nurses need proper old school training, proper uniforms and someone older than 20, in charge of the wards every shift!
It's obvious on here and from other personal accounts I've been told, that it isn't a rare thing these days. And it's a disgusting state of affairs.

I should have said that the ward sister was horrific, but at the next hospital, it was honestly like a different universe, the treatment was so lovely. I’ve had a gazillion complications but I’m currently very healthy, just can’t turn right very quickly or the knee goes.

That's awful ☹️ The very best and worst people I've ever come across have been nurses....I hope you made a good recovery.

I was lucky and had a side room when I was in
But there was a woman shouting the same thing over and over all night
My op had finished about 4pm
At midnight I got woken up to ask what I wanted for lunch the next day
Then the shouting started again
Between that and the obs there wasn't much sleep!

Recently I had this with my dad. When I spoke to the nurse there was an actually a noise policy and I asked the patient to put his headphones on.

So bloody is! We have ‘notorious’ parents who are now only allowed to contact the deputy head because of previous aggression/abusive behaviour towards staff. I don’t work in a rough school. Parents and children are far more entitled than 20 years ago. I saw a meme comparing parental attitudes with the first being parents telling off the children for bad reports and the second being parents telling off teachers for bad reports. I’m keen to leave despite not being near retirement age. It’s no wonder recruitment and retention in teaching is so appalling these days.

Please complain to PALS.

We all should.

I have complained to TFL about loud music on tube, busses and the Overground.

It looks like this is one of the promises Susan Hall has made for her London Mayor bid. So politicians will listen.

It's so bloody annoying having some entitled twat invade your personal space with their noise.

I was in a private room when I had an accident, no idea why, but the nurses’ station was outside my door and they could obviously hear me. They completely ignored me shouting for help-I couldn’t walk and needed a bedpan and more covers, I was freezing, probably in shock. They took over an hour to come in despite having a fine old conversation/laugh.

In the next hospital (I was moved-by DPD, which I found hilarious for plastics) there must have been 10 people crowded round the bed opposite making the hell of a row, using the patient only loo and leaving it filthy, at least 4 of us had major open wounds so needed a clean environment. Drove me nuts.

I would say this has been happening for quite a long time now. When my GP was dying of cancer on a general ward the fuckwit opposite point blank refused to use headphones whilst watching TV. I asked several times but he told me it was his right to do as he pleased. Thankfully a nurse was able to move my GP to a side room for their last 12 hours but it just added a whole level of stress to a stressful situation.

I still feel deep disgust and anger towards the selfish man who insisted on having his wife's TV on super loud when I was in the shared maternity recovery ward. They even left it on when they pushed off elsewhere for a bit! 2014 and they called their baby "Fox". Selfish, ignorant man upsetting vulnerable women at a time when they should have been able to sleep. And no, he didn't turn the volume down or use headphones when politely asked to do so.

It’s just rude and self absorbed behaviour. It’s not a surprise though!

I think that's unfair. The nurses deal with enough aggression as it is

Agreed. I’ve been in France for 16 years, had a baby here and all our family have had various operations. We’ve never been on a ward or even shared rooms: single rooms all the way.

British hospitals sound absolutely grim.

I had this when my daughter was in hospital for four days, a woman was talking loudly on her phone at 11pm while sick kids were trying to sleep.

I spoke to the nurse who initially was reluctant to say anything until I said that if she didn't then I would, and I was likely not to be as polite as a staff member.

I also agree with making a complaint. They need to be via PALS so they appear on the right reports at governance meetings and then create a trend the trust has to deal with.

On maternity wards, also contact your local Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership MNVP who collect feedback and take it directly to senior staff.

Hospitals have a duty to ensure patients have a safe and healing environment, but they need to be forced in many cases unfortunately.

YANBU . People can be such jerks.