"Poor care at A&E"

My husband collapsed while in London early this year, he was diagnosed with brain tumours following a biopsy at the London Neurology Hospital and given three months.

During this time he had several falls, a consequence of the brain tumours, although he was under Mount Vernon for care on the numerous occasions I had to call out the Ambulance because I had no help and was unable to get him up by myself. Each time he was taken to Stoke Mandeville where they seem to have no understanding of brain tumours and actually smirked and made comments that he was not all there. When he cried owing to their comments they were still amused, making him out to be an idiot. Sometimes he was kept in, we were left waiting hours, often into the early hours, on one occasion it was 2am in the morning. I was assured by staff it was okay for me to go home. Next morning. when I arrived they said he was incontinent, which at that time he was not but had been left unattended after I left and he was not able to call anyone. We had similar experience each time. He got an infection and ended up in hospital for sometime. We were then sent home, being told my husband needed twenty four hour care. No care package was provided and obviously I was not able to cope on my own.

It was very sad that someone who had worked so hard all his life achieving so much in his career and for helping others was treated so badly at Stoke Mandeville.

The treatment at Mount Vernon, UCH and the Neroly Hospital was so different.

He was only young, although the brain tumours affected him, he did understand what was going on at this time.