Safe In The Nhs.

[anneasquith]

a patient in a Scottish hospital contracted hepatitis C, doesn't make me feel very '' safe '' :(

[mrs_overall]

Morning anne

They say that hospitals are not healthy places to be!

[anneasquith]

true mrs o. want an infection, to your nearest hospital,

[murraymints]

Hail to thee great international super model !! Xxx...you'll know all about hospital acquired infections !

[anneasquith]

MM, is that for mrs o. did folks sleep last night ?

[mrs_overall]

Morning mauler. x

Yes, I have a great deal of experience of contracting infections whilst an in patient.
However, rather than scream the place down and demand compensation, I take the philosophical view that these things cannot always be avoided

[gness]

Anne......After what I have seen I never feel safe in a hospital.....not the fault of the NHS though...the fault of some staff..and I have seen some real crackers...and the fault of the managers.

KGH became the hospital it is when contract cleaners were let loose....and as for LGH...well I can't begin to tell stories of the cleaning that went on there ....or didn't.

[pixie373]

My theory has always been that you have to be very fit and well to survive a hospital stay.
One of our clients was admitted to hospital with a urine infection, the confusion caused by the infection meant he kept forgetting he couldn't walk without a frame and was found several times on the floor. It was decides he would be safer in hospital until the infection had cleared. After two weeks in hospital, he could no longer walk (they hadn't got him out of bed) and had grade 3 pressure sores. He died two months later.

[mazie]

Don't get me started Grrrr....... Nice to see you about again mrs_o x

[murraymints]

I had endless battles to get fil home ..Alzheimer's and cancer...went in to have his bowels cleared..he had compacted...ended up in for 6+ months ...mrsi...kidney failure...septicaemia...dehydration...malnutrition....they were killing him !!! Think he got home only because they couldn't stand anymore of my kicking and screaming .....

[murraymints]

That was for Mrs O Anne....Got a bit more sleep last night...I am just in after walking to post office with dad in his buggy....Good job I insisted going with him as the battery died and I ended up pushing him home ! Taking him for scan tomorrow...

[jake-the-peg]

Looks like it happened in an Edinborugh hospital too just before Christmas.

http://news.stv.tv/east-central/258415-patient-infected-with-hepatitis-c-at-edinburgh-royal-infirmary/

Having looked at this briefly it seems the percentage of the population in Scotland with Hep C is roughly twice what it is in England which I guess makes a Scottish A&E department a dangerous place to be in that regard.

All the same 2 cases in Scottish Hospitals in as many months does indicate the need for a review of procedures I'd say.

Still in the wonderful private American system they've just had this!

http://rt.com/usa/hospital-worker-sentenced-spreading-hepatits-616/

[emmie]

too many incidences of bad or ill treatment to think this is a one off, having gone in for one thing, the consultant asked me why i was still there two weeks later, he obviously didn't read the notes, caught infection whilst in hospital due to inattention of nurse, who let the canula fly over the place, blood everywhere, looked like a scene from a horror film, calling the nurse on the buzzer elicited a response half an hour after i started ringing. not pretty and meant my stay was that bit longer.

[pixie373]

I am wondering how they knew it was contracted at the hospital? Patients aren't screened routinely on admittance?

[emmie]

http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/patient-catches-hepatitis-c-in-edinburgh-hospital-1-3248402

[anneasquith]

the article I read today was re monklands hospital , Airdrie, Lanarkshire,

[jake-the-peg]

Yes like I say 2 in a month in Scotland