[Margaret Pilkington]

I would have to disagree on that Margaret, my daughter went in hospital, and took her meds, they were taken off her and supposedly being kept until discharged, on that day when she asked for her meds there were only two tablets left in the box when there should have been twenty, the staff had been dispensing them to other patients, then to cap it all the nurse said I'll get you a new prescription, I'll be two minutes, the sod went on her lunch break, and my daughter didn't get her presciption until two hours later.
Thats not the only instance I've heard about with some of the staff at that meat factory in Blackburn. If I have to go in there, my medication won't be going, they wil get a copy of the prescription & thats it.
I would have to be unconscious before they could get me in there.
Accy Vic, or Royal Preston OK, but not Blackburn.
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Yes, I know of instances like the one you quoted.......but my point about patients taking in their own medications was that they be used for the patient that is named on the box.....not someone else........and as I also said, it was proposed that all beds had lockable medication locker, so that patients could continue to manage their own medications.
I am told that this is now what is done.

Though I worked in the NHS for almost 30 years, I would have to be very sick(unconscious even) to submit to hospital admission........I just don't like hospitals/doctors/medical meddling.
That is just how I am.