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EasMid

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My Mum was in there for 3 weeks around16 years ago while all this was going on. All the time she was in there was an elderly lady in the next bed that never had visitors. She obviously had dementia or similar & was in after having had a fall shortly after having a hip replacement following a previous fall & was unable to get out of bed or sit up unaided. She had difficulty communicating.
When meals were delivered they just put it on her bed table out of reach & left her to it. The first time I realised what had happened was when they came back to collect the plate etc & commented that she hadn't eaten anything. That happened several times (& also with water). It ended up where we would help feed her & my comments to staff about this were ignored.
On the evening before Mum was discharged the lady asked me to take her to the toilet. I asked the staff to take her, it was about 15 mins later when they brought a wheelchair & took her ( the toilet door was visible from Mum’s bed). As we were leaving about 45 mins later I realised she hadn’t come back & we hadn’t seen anyone bring her out of the toilet. I mentioned this to the staff & someone went to check. She couldn’t open the door & panic ensued.
It turned out they’d forgotten about her & she’d fallen (again) trying to get off the toilet. When we went the next day to collect Mum there was someone else in the lady’s bed & when I asked how she was I was practically told to mind my own business. All Mum knew was that a lot of staff appeared to eventually get her out of the toilet on a trolley & take her away. I’ve often wondered what happened to her.
I want surprised when all the enquiry crap happened.
 
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staffordjas

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Mudgie said:
but I thought vases of flowers weren't permitted in wards.
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They were when I was in , not that I ever got given any but nice to look at others .

When hubby was in with his heart op 2012 , he had excellent care in ICU for a couple of weeks , then was moved to the cardiac ward which was a total contrast. He didn't have a jug of water , I asked the nurse for one for him. Was told they didn't have any as all being used , so to hunt around to see if anyone wasn't using theirs. (Still haunted by the memories of going around the side wards attached trying to find one, seeing some really ill people needing attention and none coming) . He was hardly looked after at all in that ward , I ended up buying bottles of water for him as he never did get a jug.
 
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EasMid said:
They were when my Mum was in & they were just pre-pandemic at New Cross.
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Non in mum's ward when she was there in 2004. In fact a crony of hers tried to bring some for her and was effectively told to piss off by a Staff Nurse who told her in no uncertain terms a hospital was not the place for flowers or vases.
 
Glam

Glam

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staffordjas said:
They were when I was in , not that I ever got given any but nice to look at others .

When hubby was in with his heart op 2012 , he had excellent care in ICU for a couple of weeks , then was moved to the cardiac ward which was a total contrast. He didn't have a jug of water , I asked the nurse for one for him. Was told they didn't have any as all being used , so to hunt around to see if anyone wasn't using theirs. (Still haunted by the memories of going around the side wards attached trying to find one, seeing some really ill people needing attention and none coming) . He was hardly looked after at all in that ward , I ended up buying bottles of water for him as he never did get a jug.
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I used to buy bottles of water from the Newsagents in the foyer. She had a jug, but it always felt like the water had been siphoned from the hot tap. The only drink my Mum liked hot was a cup of Tea.
Flowers were allowed, but if any of us had taken her a bunch we would have been told off. She hated cut flowers, always said they lasted longer in the ground and were a waste of money. The money was better off spent on cream cakes - for her!
 
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gilesjuk

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Btw, this news article confirms my previous big post about what happened:

www.bbc.co.uk

Stafford Hospital: the scandal that shames the NHS

The findings of the public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital will be published on Wednesday. But its roots run deeper than what happened at one trust - it is a scandal which casts a shadow over the whole health service.
www.bbc.co.uk

"It also achieved the elite foundation trust status, which is given to the best-performing parts of the health service.
Its bid was approved by another regulator Monitor and signed off in June 2007 by Andy Burnham, who was then a junior minister but later became health secretary and now holds the shadow post in opposition.

In fact, it was the decision by the board to go for foundation trust status that contributed to much of the cost-cutting drive that undermined care.
More than 150 nurses left the trust between 2006 and 2008."

150 nurses!! shocking.
 
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