"Care & Speed of diagnosis"

On Wednesday 17th October I went to the surgery for a flu jab after the jab my nurse took my pulse, she wasn't happy because it was hard to find, pulsing under 30. Asking me to wait 5mins, she then gave me an ECG. Upon seeing the results from this, she asked the doctor to see me, which he did 10mins later. He then told me he hadn't seen a pulse that low in his 10 years as a GP and believed the diagnostic to be heart failure, a blockage.

Writing a letter & trying to phone he told mehh to go straight to Ealing Hospital. On arriving at A&E I handed over my letter and within 30mins taken through put into bed & regularly monitored. Later that evening a bed was found for me in the High Dependency Cardiac Ward on a machine. For 2 days they gave me diuretics and measured my urine as my legs were swollen, after they had sorted that, the hospital took me on Monday to have a Pacemaker fitted having confirmed a heart blockage.

I can't praise both Broadmead Surgery and Ealing Hospital enough for the speedy diagnosis and fantastic treatment and care received from the nurse and doctor at this surgery and the nursing staff, doctors and consultants at the hospital. I am also pleased at the speed of the follow-up appointments.