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"Hospital ward admission for a broken hip"

About: Western Isles Hospital / General Surgery Western Isles Hospital / Trauma & orthopaedics

(as a relative),

My dad fell and broke his hip.  He had surgery, a pin put in to his hip.  He is type 2 diabetic.  He developed a pressure sore on his left heel within the first week of being on surgical ward.  The heel turned black.  He was in hospital for 10 wks. He also got an infection on the wound from surgery, but that cleared.  

He is home now, he has to attend podiatry weekly for his black heel.  They said it might not ever heal.  They stated that amputation may be one of the options if antibiotics don't help.  

I'm not very happy that it has come to this.  I feel that the level of care in the surgical ward was not up to standard in preventing pressure sores.  He came out of hospital worse than when he went in.  

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Response from Denise Symington, Patient Focus Public Involvement, Clinical Governance, NHS Western Isles 2 months ago
Denise Symington
Patient Focus Public Involvement, Clinical Governance,
NHS Western Isles

Lead Advisor to NHS Western Isles on Public Engagement and Service Change

Submitted on 09/09/2025 at 15:16
Published on Care Opinion at 15:16


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Dear Flo Nighting Gale

Thankyou for getting in touch with us via Care Opinion to tell us about your dads recent experience in Surgical Ward.

I have been advised to ask that you to contact the Complaints Officer to allow us to investigate this in more detail.

Our Complaints Officer is Roddy McKay and he can be contacted at roddy.mckay@nhs.scot.

kind regards

Denise Symington

Patient Focus Public Involvement

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