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Originally Posted by grego
I haven't read the thread yet Jaysay but I will, in our defence though patients are often sent to the discharge lounge before their prescription is sent to pharmacy, quite often its not even written yet the wards will say pharmacy is holding things up, even the electronic prescribing isn't always finalised, its bad planning and we've been complaining about it ourselves as we are always the scapegoat, discharges in the pharmacy are prioritised in date/time of discharge order it is up to the ward staff to specify though. This doesn't help what you've been through and thats awful.
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I can see where your coming from grego, but you can bet your bottom dollar that it wasn't the nursing staff nor the pharmacy staff that came up with the idea to have patients sat in a dicharge loung for over four and a half hours. When you've been an inpatient all you want to do is get home, not sit about waiting for tablets, after all they knew I was going home at lunchtime the previous day. It is six weeks now since I came home and wote a letter of complaint to the patient care manager, as yet they have not had the decency to reply.
