"The care my father received"

My father was on MEAU at Lincoln County, he contracted an infection while there then transferred to Lancaster ward and died eleven days later.

The care we witnessed on MEAU was in my opinion barbaric. I saw Elderly people left to be incontinent even though calling out to use facilities then left wet and soiled for hours, no I am not exaggerating. On one occasion a senior nurse gave medication for the man in the next bed to my Dad he was clearly in the later stages of dementia, he had thrown his cover off and had very obviously been doubly incontinent.

They put the cover back over him and walked away three hours later at the time of shift handover five yes five HCA's came to assist him.

What we witnessed made my blood boil, not one of them spoke to him they clearly and quite loudly had gone to him together to discuss an upcoming staff meeting.

One staff member about five minuets in started shouting at the man that he wasn't helping and that he was hurting her back and that if he didn't help and stop trying to fight them they would leave him they then asked the others what he name was anyway.

They carried on their unofficial staff meeting at the end of his bed. This was just one of the acts we witnessed while there. I regret greatly leaving my Dad on that ward I won't go into his treatment as I have made an official complaint but I will say I believe he would be alive today if I had taken him home.