On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:22:26 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Is this enough or do you want a report on the disgracefully filthy
Pinderfields Hospital Wakefield. They had to change the law to abandon
Crown Immunity after Pinderfields Hospital killed 20 -odd patients
with food poisoning.

A son was in the Burns Unit at Pinderfields and had the very best treatment
possible.

How do you know that?

We regard it with great affection, it saved his life.

Is that your consolation for the relatives of the patients who died of
food poisoning.

I can't speak about the burns unit, but the surgical ward that B.I.L
went on (see previous post) was filthy and decrepit, observations I am
qualified to make.


There was no delay at all when my wife presented (at BUPA) with acute
symptoms of a chronically infected gall bladder.

There was no delay when a neighbour presented at the local A&E with the same
thing a few weeks ago.


The ultrasound
revealed it needed to be removed as soon as possible, which it was 36
hours later (by the local professor of abdomenal surgery or somesuch)

The neighbour's was removed within four hours.

Mary you are not dealing from the same deck of cards.

She had a different condition. Empyema of the gall bladder. Which is a
clinical emergency.

This is the end stage of gall bladder disease which occurs
if inflammation of the gall bladder has not been treated in a timely
manner. It results in the gangrenous gall bladder becoming grossly
distended due to it filling up with pus because it cannot drain away
(So-called "Penile Gallbladder") .

When my Mother in Law had her gall bladder removed she had to wait 8
weeks for the OP at the LGI, and this could have happened at any time.

NB.. My nephew didn't get anything like the 4 hours treatment at
Jimmy's despite having acute appendicitis, the result was peritonitis.

Unfortunately my wife had to wait more than 5 days just to get to see
her NHS GP to be referred to BUPA for an ultrasound. BUPA called us
back within the hour and made an appointment for the next morning. It
took 3 days for her GP to read the letter (which BUPA had taken the
trouble to send by fax) and then refer her for the operation. Lots of
plausible-plausible excuses from the Health Centre.

AFAIAC the BUPA waiting time for the BUPA op started at the time her
GP referred her for it. Monday to Wednesday with antibiotic cover was
perfectly acceptable, 8 weeks as per the LGI would not have been.

:-(


You have the choice.


* NO YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE *

The NHS gets their get money whether there is a bed and/or treatment
etc. for you when you need it or not.

DG