"Concerned about my wife's care"

I am very concerned about the care of my wife at Crosshouse Hospital. I took my wife to the Ayreshire Dr on call service on Monday evening. She had a really sore head saying she could feel the blood in her head pounding and was in a lot of pain. The Dr measured her blood pressure which they identified as dangerously high, and they felt there was a risk of a stroke. The Dr advised us to go the Hospital and told us that they would phone ahead.

We got to the hospital later on that evening and the nurse did an assessment. I stressed to the nurse about what the Dr had said and the need for some medication for the blood pressure was asked to wait. 45 mins later, the pain my wife was in was getting worse and I asked the nurse who told me that the Dr would come down but was very busy. Still nothing was done. She was given two cocodamol a bit later but still nothing was done about the high blood pressure. My wife was moved onto Orange Ward, when the ward nurse came in to ask for more details she tried to suggest that it was just a migraine. I was still trying to ask about why nothing was done about the high blood pressure but we were told to wait until the Dr came.

It wasn’t til the early hours and 5 hours since we got the hospital that the junior Dr came to see my wife. More pain killers were given but the blood pressure issue was still not addressed.

At 7 am the next morning the Consultant came in and then did prescribe medication for the blood pressure and some tests were ordered and she was moved to Ward 2D. Its 3 days since admission and we are still waiting for the CT scan and a Lumbar puncture. I am concerned about the care of my wife. I wonder why it took 9 hours for them to address the issue which was raised by the on call dr who sent us to the hospital. One of the nurses when I raised this told me that I couldn’t know, that I wasn’t a dr, but I was trying to relay what the Dr on call had said, so I wasn’t at all happy with the way this was managed.