"Poor experience on ward 10 in Manchester"

I have stayed on ward 10 for nearly 3 weeks there is nothing good to say about this ward.

The nurses will tell you that they are under staffed, but I think that they do not know how to speak to patients. They wrote my medication in another patient's chart - I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't noticed!

There were times when they told me that other patients were more important than me at that time. There were times when the ward was left with no nurses on it. Only a few ever seemed to have time for me.

I felt that staff often didn't listen but told me that I had to listen to them. Some seemed to have no respect for anyone. The shower rooms are dirty. At times, when I rang my buzzer, staff would walk past and leave it till they wanted to deal with it.

Nurses are often also rude to the support workers and it seemed to me that they often have them doing most of their work as well, which meant all they do are the meds, as I have also seen the support workers doing dressings.

I have also witnessed people picking up more infections from this hospital than they had when they came in.

In the rest of the hospital, the toilets I went in were filthy with dirt - used pads coming out of the bins. People were smoking in toilets.

When I tried to complain, I was told that it didn't happen like that. I even tried to talk to them, to be told they are too busy. This hospital is a disgrace. I have more concerns than this and I will be making a bigger complaint.