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About: Colchester General Hospital

My 27 yr old son was taken to colchester hospital early Sunday morning by ambulance, can not fault the ambulance staff they were wonderful. I was shown to the relatives room where I was left fretting and no one came to see, after about an hour I went in search for information where I was told I'm not on duty yet go to the desk. Once I got to see my son I was informed he had had a stroke and he wouldn't survive and they couldn't do anything for him, the E R staff were nice, they said they were moving him to the stroke unit. Knowing my son was going to die soon I asked if I could stay with him and was told no. My husband, my younger son and the patients girlfriend and myself sat with my elder son for rhe whole visiting times but was made to feel in the way so much so they were running trolleys over our feet, pushing past us instead of asking us to move, even lowering the bed when my legs were under them resulting the bed pushing on my legs. They showed no compassion what's so ever. When we asked questions they were curt and not very nice at all. When we went home the nurse on the desk said your going now very sarcastically. I took the number so I could check on my son, when I rang later I was told that if there was any change they would ring me and I didn't need to ring again. About 3 hours later I got a phone call saying he had taken a turn for the worst and would I like to come up and he was surprised when I said I would. When we got there it turned out he had died a few minutes before they rang us. They said he took a turn for the worst earlier in the evening but decided to do a ct scan and get the results to see what was going on before ringing me which gave me no way of seeing my son before he died and as his mother and carer that has been with him throughout his life I was not there when he needed me most and I didn't get to say goodbye. i know these nurses usually work with the elderly but they showed no compassion at all.

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Response from Steve Bruce, Patient Experience Lead, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust about a year and a half ago
Steve Bruce
Patient Experience Lead,
East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust
Submitted on 17/10/2023 at 16:17
Published on Care Opinion at 16:17


Please accept our condolences on the passing of your son and I am sorry that the whole experience was not as expected from A&E to the ward and for the lack of compassion and care. We are always looking to learn from events and we would value your comments and time, if you would like to share these please give me a call on 01473 702101.

I have forwarded your comments to all the departments involved and I know they would want to learn from these events, improving the care of patients and loved ones going forward.

Many thanks for telling us of your experience at such a difficult time.

Steve Bruce

Patient Experience Team

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