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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
appalled by the lack of, for want of a better phrase - 'joined up services'.
There appeared no communication between teams of medical staff.
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That sums it up for me too. My late husband was an otherwise healthy active 61 year old. The first day he was full of praise for those caring for him. The second day he actually said "I'm frightened" and then outlined an occurrence over a missing medical note which happened to another patient who'd been admitted that day. The staff crowded around that patient trying to persuade him to take medication which his consultant had documented that he was allergic to and which could be fatal (detailed on the missing record).
My other half caught some sort of bug in the hospital and wasn't discharged as planned - I was sat at his bedside when a nurse actually raised her voice to him .... he died the next day. I got 100s of disbelieving 'phone calls from around the country and heard some hair raising accounts of hospital errors.
I too started action but eventually decided our 18 year old needed me more than I needed a 6ft hole in the ground.