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About: Watford General Hospital

Shocked and surprised this hospital is still allowed to operate, having one extremely bad experience was bad enough but for the second time, yeah that bad here. *no immediate covid testing upon patient's been admitted, I had my test done several hour's upon coming in.*I have severe social anxiety and am disabled, my partner was not allowed come with me YET other people brought in someone/other's with them, even an entire family and it was okay for them to do so, add little Social Distancing.* Understand staff are busy but was promised a specialist would come and see me, this never happened, much of my time here was spent waiting.*Moved onto a ward in early hours of the morning with little food and drink given, (came home to find partner did not recive any communication from the hospital, yet was promised they would.)* quite literally nothing to do on the ward, 3 people in one side room on chairs and no beds, complete boredom, no masks being used by patients-I am Extremely CEV.*Being on a restrictive diet found food menu unaccommodating and no break down of the ingredients. X2 foods that did arrive then found out contained a ingredient have an intolerance to.Much of meals served are ready meals, go to Aylesbury hospital (or prisons.) foods are fresh and top quality. Through poor food quality, hours of not receiving food and lack of drink ended up nearly dehydrated and suffered nausea through it all.*Safety of Staff and Patient's, one particular patient clearly had mental issues yet was allowed wondered around freely. He exposed himself to a lady, staff did Jack shoot, he'd frequently poked his head through the curtain at this poor woman, one time he went past me and quite literally stared. The hospital is over worked, tired and old, like Hemel Hospital and other hospitals they should be pulled back up to modern standards and fully working with support of new hospitals being built.

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Response from Watford General Hospital 2 years ago
Watford General Hospital
Submitted on 31/01/2022 at 14:01
Published on nhs.uk at 14:34


We are sorry to hear about your experience. If you would like us to investigate this matter further on your behalf, please contact our PALS team on 01923 217198, or email westherts.pals@nhs.net

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