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Woman on ward - complains about male patient. Is discharged.

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KittenKong · 27/01/2022 11:01

Going on twitter. She was in a Women’s ward (signage says ‘women’ but later this was disputed by staff).

Another patient on ward ‘Annie’ (not real name). Visitor comes in ‘Hello Fred’.

Woman patient complains that there is a male in the ward. Staff come on handed and tell her that there isn’t (and that there were no single sec wards) - and treated as if she is a troublemaker.

Woman mysteriously discharged PDQ, although not quite feeling well enough in herself.

twitter.com/gillyism/status/1486596070096478209?s=21

Baroness is on the case.

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KittenKong · 27/01/2022 14:14

@Whatwouldscullydo

This is awful.

The staff lying to her face like that is a firm of abuse. You don't go to hospital to be abused. I hope the baroness heslts things sorted. So she can resume her treatment safety in a single sex ward.

I would have a bloody stroke.

It’s day!
Noooo kitten, it’s night
But I can see the sun high in the sky!
Nooo kitten, there’s no sun there
It’s light!
It’s dark!

When I was little my siblings would tell me mad lies to wind me up - I have never been able to keep quiet when someone tells me a blatant porky to my face.

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BlackeyedSusan · 27/01/2022 14:12

Thank God for the Baroness...

Whatwouldscullydo · 27/01/2022 14:04

This is awful.

The staff lying to her face like that is a firm of abuse. You don't go to hospital to be abused. I hope the baroness heslts things sorted. So she can resume her treatment safety in a single sex ward.

Appledrop · 27/01/2022 13:35

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KittenKong · 27/01/2022 12:49

Gill has not posted a heartbreaking old photo of herself - my gosh she is a fighter.

How can the staff be so pathetic and stupid? I hope the Baroness can really run with this.

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OhHolyJesus · 27/01/2022 11:34

This is also my worst nightmare. I've told my DH want he needs to do on my behalf if this happens. Another thing women have to guard against.

This poor woman, so angry for her, what were the staff thinking? They did the very opposite of what they are supposed to do. Medical provision and safeguarding. It doesn't sound like she was fit to go home.

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KittenKong · 27/01/2022 11:25

Or sounds as if ‘Annie’ was a disruptive force on the ward too. I hate being in a hospital at the best of times and form it very unnerving (you just can’t sleep). I can’t imagine how a DV survivor would feel.

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Rightsraptor · 27/01/2022 11:24

Appalling. One of my worst nightmares. We read yesterday that the EHRC are shortly going to send the Scottish government information on single sex spaces, which also apply to E&W, so that'll be great to have that clarification. We'll probably need to take a printed copy into hospital with us if we're admitted.

ThatsWhenTheCannibalismStarted · 27/01/2022 11:23

Disgraceful.

I love this reply, though, made me feel a tad emotional:
"I have noticed how many women now know to call on the baroness, like a lonely hopeful prayer whispered to the moon, and then she appears, like a goddess, and grace flows as a balm into an aching heart."

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