Wednesday 14 January 2015

Bosworth Ward Bradgate Unit still specialising in poor care

I had to ring J's ward today to demand that that give her requested PRN medication, after they'd been triggering her all day with general fuckwittery, including withholding important parts of her lunchtime medication. I stopped listening to the explanation about lost keys and incidents, because whilst they were talking to me was yet more time taken up when they could have been calming her down verbally or with medication. She was told that she was being moved from her room to another ward at 8.30am and was still distraught without being moved with packed bags at 4pm. She was repeatedly moved out of the lounge and communal areas because her crying "was upsetting other patients". Again, the dysfunctional staff seemed baffled by suicidal feelings and anxiety. Eventually they move her and she has walk along ridiculously long corridors to the other side of the unit (I'm pretty sure there are shortcuts and wheelchairs) carrying heavy bags - neither of two accompanying nurses offered to help, in full knowledge that anxiety makes her back and legs give way. She can barely walk 20 yards on a good day. There's no seats in those long corridors. if only, I'd been there. Yesterday they seemed okay, almost redeeming themselves, but today, it was just like last year when we had all the problems on this same ward.

Apart from tweeting about these idiots, I've been ranting on Facebook and other social networks, because lets face it, the CQC is utterly ineffectual, Customer Services just delay complaints and the Press just rewrite the story how they see fit and miss the point. There is no immediate recourse. The best I can hope for is a continuous naming and shaming of these bad wards. I'll be recording the odd thing here also for reference later, but mainly to stop myself going insane.

(Fb rant...)
This may seem a little dark, after today, now she's off Bosworth Ward (where she was admitted again recently) and now in a better ward. If Bosworth was burnt to the ground and some of the staff were scarred for life and perhaps treated in a hospital where no one gave a fuck, I would stand and be counted with the arsonists. Things just for a moment were going okay, naturally she is still very unwell, and then the shitty dysfunctional robot staff just keep making one amateur mistake after the next, almost like they want her to freak out and do terrible things. (I reserve the right to delete this rant later to protect the innocent whilst damning the incompetent)
When I got shit at my job, (and amongst other reasons) I left.

That ward needs a big sign above the door "May contain triggers" perhaps with a list of the number patients who were allowed to kill themselves and self injure whilst in their care. Ha, like a fucking league table in comparison with the other wards. (I can provide links to newspaper articles relating to the inquests)

Incidentally, her community care had been improving, but I'm in no mood today to sing the praises of Leics NHS Trust's today.

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