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"Patient interviews"

About: Rampton Hospital / Personality Disorder Pathway

(as a service user),

I feel like I’m being messed about with these patient interviews. I used to really really really! enjoy doing these interviews and now it’s just really stressful.

Why change something when it was working completely fine before, the two previous staff  had it really organised. You knew the questions to ask and always felt organised and welcome.

I’m strongly thinking about stopping after this week.

What’s the point, why change it, and train others up when you have staff that know it, prepared to carry on doing it.

More patients need to be trained, but then if its chaotic no one will want to stay doing them.

You’ve only got 3 full time patients that can do them, you can’t afford for any of the others to say they can’t do them.

I don’t know who will be turning up to do the interviews with me, the staff change all the time, and it makes me unsettled. Why is everyone suddenly getting involved, there not running it properly.

I hate when I don’t get told information, like if it’s on teams, I like to know prior what I’m doing. When they do it on teams it’s so hard to judge, when they are sat in front of you, you can get a feel to how they are and pick up a lot more.

We still didn’t find out who got that job we interviewed for the other week, We always got told in good time before.

It is bad when you feel like you can’t speak up, it’s like what’s the point in saying any of this, no one will listen anyway, probably started to make your minds up, its meant to be patient involvement but no one is listening to the patients.

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Response from Stacey Treloar-Bradley, Head of Nursing and Quality, Rampton Management, High Secure Pathways Rampton Hospital 3 weeks ago
Stacey Treloar-Bradley
Head of Nursing and Quality, Rampton Management,
High Secure Pathways Rampton Hospital

Quality improvement

Submitted on 24/04/2024 at 16:59
Published on Care Opinion on 25/04/2024 at 08:24


Thank you for raising your concerns on Care Opinion but also with me when I visited your ward on Friday last week. I am sorry that you feel this way as I know that you have supported patient interviews for some time and really valued this experience.

Let me reassure you that we are having conversations about patient interviews and what we can do to ensure that this remains a positive experience for all involved. A meeting was held only this Monday to discuss a plan moving forward.

Nigel and I would like to arrange a meeting to discuss with you and other patients involved, your concerns and get your thoughts and ideas on how we can improve this for patients that help with this process. We will be in contact with the ward soon to arrange.

Please let me reiterate that we are listening to you and trying to resolve the issues that you and others are experiencing at this time. We value your time and input into the interview process and want you to remain part of our ongoing recruitment strategy.

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