Kayleigh said: “He was there pretty much all day and had scans, then they told him there was nothing wrong and sent him home with painkillers.
“We got home and they told us we needed to go back for our discharge paperwork, so I went back and it said he had some fluid on the lungs on his CT scan.
“They told me they hadn’t read that part and to bring Ben back.”
Boy, that's a world class service, right there!
The 37-year-old said: “On June 19 the nurse came over and started to put medication into his arm and when he said it hurt she said it was his antibiotic.
“But Ben wasn’t on antibiotics, half of it had gone in already but the nurse went away to go and check.
“It turned out he’d been given another person’s medication, luckily it wasn’t something he was allergic to, but that wasn’t even checked.
“When the nurse who gave him the wrong medication came back she said it had never happened and tried to say to him that on the pain medication he was getting confused, even though his mum witnessed it.”
Angels, they are, selfless angels ministering to the sick...
Kayleigh claims no thorough investigation happened, and the nurse changed her story to say that she’d realised it was the wrong medication before giving it to him, and again to say she’d connected it but not pushed.
She said the nurse was instructed not to go near Ben, and was later removed from the ward.
Selflessly coping with staff shortages all the time...
Alison Davis, chief medical officer for Medway NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are sincerely sorry if Mr Wright and his family feel the care he has received during his stay at Medway Maritime Hospital falls below the high standards of care we expect.
“We are investigating the concerns raised by Mr Wright’s family, and we will be in touch with them in due course to discuss our findings.”
So after telling him for 13 weeks his illness is all in his head, your plan is to tell him he's imagining the disgraceful incompetence of your staff too? Great plan, Angie baby...
8 comments:
When I talk to people everyone has a story about the NHS. I wonder whether the UK public is about to finally lose faith in this dodgy outfit. In this scenario the media will carry on supporting it (although running shroud-waving stories asking for more money) where the public's trust is gone. Be sure the media, the establishment, the bien-pensant will be the last to realise it.
My Mum died in hospital, 8yrs ago, the rage is still with me.
The hard of thinking will just blame it all on underfunding. Evil Tories that don't care about our wonderful NHS are starving it of desperately needed funds. Interestingly, my experiences of NHS treatment are that double checking everything is a constant aspect of the culture. Am I the patient that they think I am? which leg is it? Everything gone over twice to make sure we're getting it right. Presumably this hospital didn't get that memo.
"When I talk to people everyone has a story about the NHS. I wonder whether the UK public is about to finally lose faith in this dodgy outfit. In this scenario the media will carry on supporting it (although running shroud-waving stories asking for more money) where the public's trust is gone. Be sure the media, the establishment, the bien-pensant will be the last to realise it."
I've been saying for some time that the 'public support' for the NHS is increasingly a Potemkin Village - its created by the media and the political class purely for show, and doesn't really exist. Everybody, and I mean everybody, has either had a bad experience with the NHS themselves, or have had a close relative or friend who has. Quite often multiple bad experiences. I personally would be struggling to think of a person I know who has had a good one, a case where something was diagnosed rapidly, treatment was received quickly, with a positive outcome and good follow up. Certainly the nightmares outweigh the positives for sure. The public know the reality of the NHS, and its not good.
We are now entering a Brexit scenario - a massive disconnect between what the public think, and what the political class and media think we think, or indeed want to allow us to think. And it will come as an equally big shock to them when someone stands for election with a policy of abolishing the NHS, and they get votes as a result, lots of them.
The NHS started going downhill when they created regional committees to run it instead of each hospital being autonomous with the head nurse in charge. The moment you get a committee involved the costs multiply several hundred percent because non of the idiots on that committee know anything about the local conditions.
Is there a blog anywhere that specialises in covering this sort of thing?
If not, I wonder if there’s a need for one?
Envyoftheworld.com, maybe.
"When I talk to people everyone has a story about the NHS. "
I have several. And one day, when the memory of my mother's two falls that have now seen her removed to a care home aren't so raw, I may blog them...
"My Mum died in hospital, 8yrs ago, the rage is still with me."
I'm so sorry. I felt like that when my father died. But it's exhausting, carrying that rage. Knowing nothing will change, no matter what.
"The hard of thinking will just blame it all on underfunding. "
Money won't solve this. It's attitude and capability.
"I've been saying for some time that the 'public support' for the NHS is increasingly a Potemkin Village - its created by the media and the political class purely for show, and doesn't really exist. "
Spot on!
"The NHS started going downhill when they created regional committees to run it instead of each hospital being autonomous with the head nurse in charge."
That was a job creation scheme that got massively out of hand, as we could all predict.
"Is there a blog anywhere that specialises in covering this sort of thing?"
I used to be part of one! 'National Death Service'. Contributors left and it folded in 2012.
"Everybody, and I mean everybody, has either had a bad experience with the NHS themselves, or have had a close relative or friend who has."
I have the odd one or two. Funnily enough I don't have any such stories about my dentist or my vet, the two areas of healthcare that I actually pay for. I have often joked that my cats have better healthcare than I do.
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