"Unaware night team"

While I cannot fault the day team of nurses and medical assistants I cannot say the same about the night team. This certainly isn't a review of their medical capability, far from it, it is more a criticism of their overall awareness on the ward.

I recently had a relatively short stay on the Samaritan Ward at Guy's Hospital and while I find it hard to sleep on a ward at the best of times it was made extra difficult on Samaritan purely by the fact that the harsh fluorescent light are kept on up until 1:30am despite the "official" time saying lights are dimmed at 10pm and are turned off by 11pm. When asked to turn the lights off the staff just shrug and carry out there duties and would eventually turn out the light closed to my ward bed, which ultimately defeats the point. The ward also has signs up on the wall saying "restful sleep helps us to get better" which becomes an ironic slap to the face after a certain hour. To add to this, various machines are often left sounding their alarm for some time without anyone coming to attend them which also doesn't create the most conducive environment for "restful sleep"