Coronation Street

[anotheoldgit]

What is going off?

Why is Gail in a nice private room in the hospital, when some have to be in mixed wards?

No wonder when her Doctor popped in to see her, she congratulated the NHS on the treatment she had received.

[4getmenot]

well she does work at the doctors

[LoftyLottie]

I must admit I had wondered this myself AOG. Not even the private wards I have seen have this level of luxury interior design. I doubt if she would have been in hospital this long either. More likely that she would have been on a bed in a corridor for a night or two and then sent home.

Well, Corrie seems to be totally out of touch these days and this just proves it.

[LoftyLottie]

should have said 'and interior design'

[redcrx]

maybe shes paying for the room?

maternity units charge for private rooms �60 a night for an en-suite in Norfolk.

[hau kola]

She might get private health care with her job-my sister did.

[Unsureme]

So its hardly NHS,hau kola.

[Unsureme]

More out of touch is "Casualty" Do they really use PC for dating sites?Never more than 3 Cases in at a time!
Do Doctors and Nurses in "real" A&E Departments discuss their Private Lives while treating Patients?
If you wander outside does a Member of Staff follow you to give you a shoulder to cry on? CERTAINLY NOT in my A&E Department.!!

[hau kola]

You can still be a private patient in an NSH hospital as redcrx has said.And as was my sister.

[funnygirl]

In most of these soaps, the patient is always in a private room!!!

Look at when Liam was taken to hospital after falling down the mountain!!!

[gina32]

i also noticed when tina asked gail where the toilet was gail told her exactly where it was, how did she know, she has been out of it for a couple of days and then hasnt even been out of the bed

[gina32]

she was taken to hospital after falling down the stairs and couldnt remember any of it let alone that she could have a private bed.

[anotheoldgit]

I suppose it's all down to costs. They don't have to pay a load of extras, for just lying in bed.

Pity our Goverment don't take a leaf out of their book.

[helliebobs]

Last year when I gave birth to my son I needed a blood transfusion and they moved into a private room for the night while I had it, not really sure why though.

[natalie_1982]

Hellie you lucky lady - my mum had four transfusions the other week on a shared ward!

I agree AOG, I did wonder why Gail had her own room, and also why she has been in hospital so long. And (maybe this is just sad of me to notice) but why she had blue and yellow bedsheets, because whenever I have visited anyone in hospital they have been white as standard? I guess she could have taken her own bedding in with her, but seems a bit daft to me.

Oh, and she sent David down to the nurses station to get a vase for her flowers. Because I am sure they have nothing better to do than tend to her sodding flowers - she works for the NHS (ok, ok, I do realise it's not real) she should know how damn pushed they are!

[moonshadow]

Since when did the NHS use colourful duvet covers with matching pillowcases? Incidentally the same bedding Sarah had on her bed when she was in and she too had her own room. When I worked for the NHS it was cellular blankets and white sheets, so they could be boil washed and believe me they needed it a lot of the time.

[LoftyLottie]

I have to admit that when I went into the day procedure unit at our local hospital (NHS) I had a bed with a matching duvet and pillow case. I was very surprised"!!

[Jenga]

They had to give her a private room to stop the other patients being disturbed with filming!

[Whickerman]

Time to mount a march to downing street in protest methinks...

[phylkat]

Flowers? Most hospitals ban flowers now. Mainly because of the bacteria they produce and also nurses haven't got time to change the water.
A pot plant is allowed if you take it home with you.

And Gail wouldn't be tucked up in bed all this time, its important to get people up and moving as soon as poss because of the risk of thrombosis,
The researchers should do their job properly. DOH!!

pk

[mata hati]

I've got the same bedding on my bed at home. I got it in Dunnes Stores in Cork. Nearly everyone who went in to hospital on Corrie has had the same bedding?Anyone else remember?
( I always remark about it!)