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"The worst hospital in the uk"

About: Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

I fainted at work after just being there for 2 hours, the paramedics showed up and they didn’t sound comforting at all, I’d only just come round and they said “ur awake now I’m not helping you off the floor get up” which is just so rude, they took an ecg and found an abnormality so they thought it was best to send me to the fit to sit area in a&e, I had to sit in the ambulance for 30mins before they checked me into a&e (could have done it quicker myself) , once in there I was waiting for an hour before someone decided to take my blood and then asked “what are u in here for” , like I thought the paramedics told them when they checked me in the nurse didn’t even know I needed a ecg check again until I explained that’s why I’m here I don’t need my blood tested, back in the waiting room for another 2 hours just to speak to a medical student where I have to explain my whole situation again (surely they have my notes on file ??), the student didn’t have any equipment she had to use her phone for the torch and the beds we’re disgusting with footprints from other patients on and empty cups of water on the tray, again back waiting for another hour all for the doctor to say “I’ve lost your ecg results we have to take them again” , back waiting another hour and he tells me finally “u must have just been dehydrated and ur ecg doesn’t concern me u can go” like what is going on with this hospital, couldn’t the paramedics just told me I might have been dehydrated and sent me home then and looked at my file to see my previous ecg results are the same as now. There was people seriously ill in the waiting room who had been there longer than me, like why is it taking 5 hours to get a blood test back to a girl who has mental health issues and is waiting with a diy bandage for her cut arms. I also saw a man who said he had been there for 7 hours get offered to go home with just pain relief- that is shocking . There was only 4 beds in the fit to sit , doctors so disorganised, medical students looking lost, nurses walking extremely slowly and looking bored, meanwhile we are suffering and having to wait hours to get a not even half decent diagnosis just so we can leave . I do not recommend this hospital to anyone unless u just want to be sat waiting to get 0 respect and patient care , there is a reason it is ranked one of the worst hospitals and has a documentary on how bad it is here

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