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"One person let the whole place down"

About: Leicester General Hospital / Maternity

After my emergency c-section I was left to fend for myself with no help from other my partner actually stayed out of hours because he was concerned I couldn’t even lift my own baby. As for them promoting breast is best! I am deeply upset that whenever I asked for help the solution was to just simply shove my babies head in the general direction and walk off with no advice nor encouragement except ‘just give a bottle for now’ I ended up giving up due to feeling too disheartened about the whole thing! The one thing that let it down most for me was one member of staff in particular who would appear and not speak a single word to me! Just grabbed what they wanted and carried on! On one occasion it was my arm for a bp reading with a cannular in the same hand which made me scream in agony! Another example of this member of staff was that I was struggling with feeding my baby and their solution was to just shove my baby's head towards my breast whilst she screamed and cried in distress until I took my own baby away from the member of staff in floods of tears telling them they were upsetting us and to leave us alone! I sat and cried for ages in that room whilst the lovely lady In the bed next to me reassured me I was doing a good job and to not let it get to me! Their final act of unacceptable behaviour was when I was being moved to another room in my bed due to not being able to walk they bashed the bed against every possible object they could and jolted me who had just had a classical Caesarian so was in severe pain, and what did they do? this member of staff smirked and said nothing! Other than that everyone else I encountered was lovely and I could not fault the care I received! Just that one person that has caused me so much upset.

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Response from Leicester General Hospital 6 years ago
Leicester General Hospital
Submitted on 20/12/2017 at 10:38
Published on nhs.uk at 11:31


Dear reviewer,

Thank you for taking the time to send in your feedback. We are very disappointed to hear about your experience in Maternity at Leicester General Hospital.

We would like to investigate this further with the Service Manager, however we require further information. If you would be happy to do so, please could you email: communications@uhl-tr.nhs.uk with your full name, address, date of birth and hospital no (if known) and we will pass these details immediately on to the team to look into further. To help us identify your complaint, please write the title of your review in the subject of the email.

We would like to stress that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable and all of our patients should be treated with dignity and respect during their stay in any of our three hospitals.

Thank you again for taking time to post your feedback and for raising this to our attention.

Kind regards

Communications Team

Leicester's Hospitals

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