Brown apologises for unacceptable failings at Stafford 'Third World' hospital (Socialized Medicine)

Daily Mail UK ^ | March 19, 2009 | Jenny Hope

[84rules]

A damning report form the Healthcare Commission yesterday detailed a catalogue of failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Stafford and Cannock Chase hospitals.

Dehydrated patients were forced to drink out of flower vases, while others were left in soiled linen on filthy wards.

Relatives of patients who died at Staffordshire General Hospital told how they were so worried by the standard of care they slept in chairs on the wards.

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Among the findings of the report were:

• Two clinical decision units - one unstaffed - used as 'dumping grounds' for A&E patients to avoid missing waiting targets;
• Nurses who turned off heart monitors because they didn't understand how to use them;
• Delayed operations, with some patients having surgery cancelled four days in a row and left without food, drink or medication;

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Readers comments:

"My wife had treatment at this hospital and it was beyond belief. Staff tried to get my wife to believe she had already been given her tablets when they hadn't; later admitting they ran out and did not want to call out the Pharmacy! People were screaming for the toilet as their requests for assistance went unheeded." Mick, Stafford

"My mother in law died at a hospital where her 'care' was almost non-existant. She died screaming in pain because nobody could be found to replace her morphine pump." Claire, Norfolk

"My sister recently qualified as a nurse. During her training a fellow student commented to a manager that a doctor hadn't bothered to change his scrubs after undertaking a minor operation on a patient and wore the same ones for his next operation. She was warned any whistle blowing of that sort would result in her being kicked out." Jo, Middlesex

[84rules]

This is what awaits us if we allow Obama and his minions to force socialized medicine down our throats. Click the link and read the article. Note the pictures of the shrine to the 400 patients who died. Especially note the story and picture of an infant who died.

[Dutchboy88]

Click, “Paging Hillary...we have 400 dead people for you to clean up...”

[GovernmentShrinker]

Two clinical decision units - one unstaffed

How can something be a "decision unit" with no staff? Does an unoccupied desk or chair make the "decisions"?

[PLMerite]

“Does an unoccupied desk or chair make the “decisions”?”

We seem to have elected an empty shirt with a teleprompter as President...

[usmom]

Yep- coming soon to America. Welcome to your Universal (aka socialized) Healthcare utopia.