Furness General Hospital staff sent offensive emails about grieving Dalton family

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Shocking, and also people should know by now that emails can be read by others apart from the recipient.

It just highlights again, from so many of the threads recently about some attitudes in the NHS.

Shocking. And worse is the fact that with such attitudes lessons are not going to be learnt.

That hospital has a v bad reputation at the moment. Mainly mismanagement rather than crap staff though going off reports. There's talk of down grading to a MWLU but it's geographically difficult for high risk people if they do that (an hour + by road to nearest consultant)

I think it would be crazy to downgrade the unit. There is no other hospital for miles!

They should just work to help get things improved, although I realize money is tight everywhere.

That's appalling - how DARE they treat any family like that, much less one that has suffered due to their rank incompetence?

Yes, think instead of lowering expectations and downgrading they should work to do their jobs in a professional manner.

There may well be mismanagement, but there is also clearly a pervasive culture of contempt for patients if staff are sending emails like that. Sadly there is far more of this in the NHS than there should be.

Funnily enough I was talking about this earlier, both my children were born at FGH, the maternity ward in particular is very poor, i'd be lying if I said my experience was a good one and my almost two year old niece had a very lucky escape. ( for some reason they repeatedly induced her diabetic mum who's kidneys weren't functioning ) luckily for them both the consultant came in, took a look at what was going on, and she was rushed straight down for an emergency section, the consultant was actually screaming in the midwives face.

Another minute or so and my niece would have been dead, she's one of the luckey ones, really it chills my blood thinking of how many children would be hear, or not left with brain damage due to birth trauma ( I know a few who have been via my dcs SN school ) if it weren't for their incompetence.

And a lot of the problems are down to crap staff, cocky know it all nurses who think they know best, and they cover each others backs. TBH I think they should get rid of a lot of them and replace with new staff ( I spend a lot of time at FGH due to my dcs SN )Problem is no bugger wants to come up to the middle of nowhere, we don't even have a paed at the moment FFS !