What happens when royals end up in NHS hospitals I wonder?

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I saw that Princess Anne has ended up in a Bristol hospital. Just idly wondering how that works, would she be given the best room, have police on the door etc?

What would happen about the protocols of greeting a royal, obviously an unplanned occasion so the staff wouldn't know, would they just say "come this way please Anne".

Anyone been involved in anything like this before?

You can guarantee there would be a call to the director of that area and people and rooms would be quickly found no matter how chaotic or busy it is.

My mother in law is on her second night sat on a a&e chair with a drip waiting for a bed. It's all a bit of a piss take really.

Yes and yes.

Even for an accident the hospital on call management team are involved so they would be expected to arrive and everything would be planned for arrival,

Not involved with anything like this but seen enough in the nhs to know they’d be given the most qualified/kindest nurse on shift, best room, first to be seen by doctors on ward round etc. Favourite treatment within the confines of realistic NHS provisions!

My mother, who isn't royal, was given her own room and nearly all the staff called her Mrs X, she didn't ask them to, they just did it. So I feel pretty sure Princess Anne would have her own room and the staff would just automatically call her Ma'am. There are bound to be guards on the door 24/7.

I worked in a London hospital when a Met Police Commissioner was admitted. To a private room in a private ward with police posted outside the door 24/7.

Its sickening isn't it. Someone getting preferential treatment because of an act of birth whilst others are sat in chairs waiting for beds, there well before Anne arrived.

Its just sickening in this day and age.

I’ve had a few VIP patients.

There’s no standard operating procedure (even though we do need one). Basically they get given a side room so other patients don’t gaup at them/ leave them alone. Site matrons and senior management are informed we have a VIP. The ward manager (and possibly more senior staff it’s a VVIP) discuss these parts about their care with the patient and their team. They also tend to get allocated a more experienced nurse to look after them on shift. We also lock down their medical records and tend to refer to them by a code name.

Other than that the care isn’t that different. We just have to make these exceptions due to the privacy and safety of the patient.

It also depends on the ‘type’ of sleb. With a VVIP it’s all about being as discrete as possible, with a reality star it’s trying to avoid negative PR.

She doesn't get better food though. I saw a clip of her husband arriving with a big cool bag of food today 😁

I don't know but I used to live near Southmead and my son still does, I said he should pop down with a bunch of flowers and see if she is allowed visitors.

Thing is she will come out singing their praises as she's not getting the real experience.

Makes me wonder if people that can afford it should just use private. But I also appreciate this brings more questions and we all pay in to the NHS.

I've been wondering about this. My DH was in agony for 14 hours yesterday. Couldn't get help from anyone.

Well they will not have to lie in agony, on a trolley, in a draughty corridor, while , unwell people are crying in pain, around them, for hours on end.

This basically. They get a side room to limit disruption. And of course unless it’s an emergency they go straight to a private hospital which means there is no NHS involvement. Celebrities do too complete with their security.

Everyone should get quality, dignified, timely medical treatment. Everyone. And it's a travesty that we're only moving further from that.

But I have no problem with adjustments like a side room being made for anyone who is at risk of their personal medical information being leaked to the media, or of photos of them in a vulnerable state being circulated online or of more serious security risks.

My understanding is that the royals usually go private but that that isn't always possible in an emergency.

The disgusting thing is the way people are so often treated in A&E not that provisions are made for the security and privacy for people such as Princess Anne.

Do you really expect her to sit and wait in a public area, being filmed etc with her personal security at risk?

My husband was in A and E for 18 hours a couple of weeks ago. It’s sickening she can just go to the front of the queue.

Surely she'll be in a private room in that hospital by now?

What baffles me about this is that almost everyone shares this view but a significant bunch of people think despite this the very fabric of the country would be shred irrevocably if Anne did not wield the power to clear an entire ward to ensure she's got somewhere to keep her hats if she's in for the long haul.

She was a neuro trauma admit. It's likely they had a bed free, the very specialist centres take direct admits to a ward after brief ED assessment/ct scan etc and yes she will have her own room due to security and privacy. The patients waiting long periods in ED are the general medical, surgical or elderly med admits. That's where the pressure is.

Southmead mostly has en-suite rooms now. She won't get a separate menu though!

Which is why her husband has been in and out with a cool box today…!! It’s been in the press all day…

Southmead has been rebuilt in recent years, it seemed quite luxurious when my dad was admitted about 18 months ago.

Much fancier than the scruffy old bunker I was in after each of my c sections there 😂

I did wonder if she wasn’t royal would they have kept her in? Obviously we’re rightly not privy to medical details so maybe her stay is clinically indicated but when I was knocked out in a bad bike accident they scanned my head, said I seemed fine and booted me out. I’d been unconscious for ten minutes,. saying that apart from a splitting headache and feeling sick I felt ok. 😁

Freya bentos pies don't need a cool bag 🤔 must have been for the choc ices.

The irony is they can't go private because the consultant knows she's safer in the NHS hospital with full access to crash teams, theatres and means of investigation. That situation will have been weighed up carefully!

We used to have a private ward in the NHS hospital in Leeds. Only trouble if you were a VIP admitted there then Jimmy Saville would drop in and see you!