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Wibbles
Wibbles Community member Posts: 1,609 Pioneering
in Children, parents, and families
My Dad - aged 91 has spent the last 5 days in hospital after a major bowel operation
He was moved to a normal ward, yesterday after spending the first 4 days in High dependancy
Here
is the ward that he was in last night - a corridor - along with another 4 beds
A total lack of privacy and decency..as well as lack of toilet facilities close by
DISGUSTING ...?
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  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 4,682 Disability Gamechanger
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    :anguished: geez!!! I could maybe understand maybe it being A&E and needing to put people in corridoors but following a planned operation that's crazy!! And going from high dependency straight to that... shocking.
    I'm so sorry for you and your dad @Wibbles :( Honestly it's worrying how bad things seem at the moment and it isn't even in the flu season yet!!

    Hope he recovers well and can be in his own bed soon <3 
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  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community member Posts: 1,609 Pioneering
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    He tells me that people were constantly squeezing past him during the night - so he got very little sleep...
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  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 2,773 Scope online community team
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    Just another example of how far things have fallen in the past 10+ years. I imagine and assume the doctors and nurses don't want to do this, but they have little choice given the number of patients they must care for and number of beds that have been provided to do that.
    They/Them, however they are no wrong pronouns with me so whatever you feel most comfortable with
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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 993 Pioneering
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    Brexit benefits?

    Doctors and nurses left in their thousands thanks to those who used their 'common sense' and failed to read the small print. Two thirds of eligible voters were not fooled and I'm proud to be in this camp.


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  • bg844
    bg844 Community member Posts: 3,887 Disability Gamechanger
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    To be honest, Australia seems a popular choice for British Doctors & Nurses. Can't blame them either, more money, less hours and a better climate to be in!
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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 4,439 Scope online community team
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    You know things aren't great when people choose to move to a country where 90% of the wildlife is trying to eat you. 

    I really hope your dad recovers soon and gets a proper ward sorted @Wibbles
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  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community member Posts: 1,609 Pioneering
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    Albus_Scope said:
    You know things aren't great when people choose to move to a country where 90% of the wildlife is trying to eat you. 

    I really hope your dad recovers soon and gets a proper ward sorted @Wibbles

    He's back home already thanks
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    Wibbles Community member Posts: 1,609 Pioneering
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    bg844 said:
    To be honest, Australia seems a popular choice for British Doctors & Nurses. Can't blame them either, more money, less hours and a better climate to be in!
    Bigger spiders and furry bouncy things as well
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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 4,439 Scope online community team
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    Loving the new profile pic by the way @Wibbles, such a classic! 
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  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,726 Disability Gamechanger
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    WhatThe said:

    Brexit benefits?

    Doctors and nurses left in their thousands thanks to those who used their 'common sense' and failed to read the small print. Two thirds of eligible voters were not fooled and I'm proud to be in this camp.


    Nothing at all to do with Brexit more to with under-funding by 13 years of Tory govt.
    2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡

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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 4,439 Scope online community team
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    Personally, I think it's a combination of the two.  Throw in a pandemic to really show the cracks and that's a triple whammy. 
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  • TJH_Fields69
    TJH_Fields69 Community member Posts: 7 Listener
    edited September 2023
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    I shudder whenever the prospect of another visit to A&E looms on the horizon. The only "good" thing is that my daughter is usually only there 12 hours or so - the last time she was rushed through within 10 minutes. I see people who don't meet the minor injuries criteria, forced to go to A&E instead, waiting for 24 hours, even more, as their injuries just aren't urgent enough to climb the waiting list.

    I read an interesting Twitter thread about the government strategy during the pandemic. A lot of countries' health service has actually improved, because ICU provision was PERMANENTLY expanded. The Tories were very careful to keep the extra ICU in the Nightingale units. Our NHS contracted by 8% during the pandemic, it's utterly shameful.
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  • Beaver79
    Beaver79 Community member, Community Co-Production Group, Scope Member Posts: 21,011 Disability Gamechanger
    edited September 2023
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    Deleted.
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 51,563 Disability Gamechanger
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    Hi @Wibbles hope your dad get well soon and I get he's glad to be home
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  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community member Posts: 1,609 Pioneering
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    Sandy_123 said:
    Hi @Wibbles hope your dad get well soon and I get he's glad to be home

    Thank you - he has a Colostomy bag - which is going to take some getting used to......
    No idea whether this is permanent or not
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  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,912 Disability Gamechanger
    edited September 2023
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    @Wibbles I have an ileostomy bag. There is a lot of information on Colostomy UK should he need it :) I hope he has support from a stoma nurse? 
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