I don`t have much confidence in our hospitals and its just been confirmed by experience of my ex wife`s treatment that I have commented on in another thread. She spent 4 weeks in one of our largest teaching hospitals in London and following 4 brain scans, 2 lumber punctures, and 3 MRIs she was discharged from hospital with the diagnosis that she may have had a minor stroke, a virus or dementia. She is now at home with daily homecare, and thankfully is improving slowly.
They could not identify the virus as they did not take the lumber punctures soon enough, also she was given medicine in hospital that required the patient to be fully hydrated when in fact she had not had any liquids for nearly 24 hrs. If none of her family were there she would not have been fed and they had to make a fuss to ensure liquids or a drip was given promptly.
It also seems that a most of the consultants were not around at the weekends and the hospital is run by a skeleton crew of doctors on Sat and Suns.
By the way, at least when I visited, at least 50% of the nurses were filipino male and female.
It just seems that our hospitals are overloaded with patients, some staff that care and others that have a blase attitude but it all seems to be in a mess.
I expect to be deluged with stories of praise for our health service now, but I can only speak for my own experiences. I went for private treatment during last year and had to remind my consultant for the results of a biopsy that he had forgotten to enter into his notes. Stay healthy or go to France/Germany when your ill.
