But...but...national health care is a panacea!! Everyone will live happily ever after!! It's the answer to all the woes in the world, after THE ONE!!!! /liberal off
Posted on 04/22/2009 6:43:26 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
AN ELDERLY stroke patient was left without food or water for 20 hours after delays in her care by the NHS, a report revealed yesterday.
The woman was taken to the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Shetland after her feeding tube became blocked.
But after delays in getting an ambulance and then discharging her from the hospital, she had been without fluid or nutrition for 20 hours and was becoming dehydrated.
Yesterday, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman upheld complaints made by the woman's husband about her treatment.
The report said that the patient – known as Mrs C – suffered a severe stroke in 2004, leaving her paralysed and unable to speak or swallow. In 2006, her feeding tube became blocked and an ambulance was called to the care home where she lived.
Her husband complained about a delay in the ambulance arriving and taking her to hospital. He also complained that no arrangements were made to take his wife home after attending A&E, meaning in total she had spent 20 hours without fluids.
On another occasion the patient went to hospital and was sent home in a taxi – to the wrong address.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.scotsman.com ...
Dear LORD....please help the UK. My heart goes out to these people. Been there...and got the damned trophy. FIL SUFFERED AND DIED, needlessly, because of this system....let alone the problems I and my child had.
didn’t the NHS fire a nurse for complaining about conditions at a hospital?
How would the UK get help?
I think they passed the point of no return already.
85% of their laws are made in Brussels now. They are a province and not a country.
While this is terrible, I’m confused as to why her husband wasn’t more proactive. Why wasn’t he there when she was put into a cab and sent to the wrong address?
"Her husband complained about a delay in the ambulance arriving and taking her to hospital. He also complained that no arrangements were made to take his wife home after attending A&E, meaning in total she had spent 20 hours without fluids."
This happened in 2006 and the Scotsman.com is just now reporting this on 4/23/09? I would say not only is their health care deplorable, their reporting of news isn't the greatest either.
Oh, this is the kind of health care we want. NOT
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