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"Heartlands the hospital in need of care"

About: Heartlands Hospital

I arrived at the SAU on referral from my GP at 10.30am , first seen by a nurse for bloods etc at 11.30 then left in waiting room till seen by doctor at 5.30pm . No communication from staff about process or updates about waiting , water only during that time so that any interventions would not be delayed. The waiting room had insufficient comfortable chairs for the total of people there. Most seemed to have been referred from AaE where they had been since early hours , one lady awaiting a bed in SAU had spent considerable time in a corridor - ? Waiting time targets in AaE being massaged? Staff looked tired and one surgical registrar with 2 FYI insufficient , Registrar looked totally exhausted . It was close to 7 before I got my discharge with urgent CT scan referral what I didn't learn till next day was that urgent means 2 weeks! So did I feel safe at this hospital ? No , at no point did anyone check on how patients were , one was in nightclothes awaiting a bed , one was elderly and agitated being calmed by other patients. There are obviously SERIOUS issues here about providing enough staff as a they were servicing the beds as well as referred patients. A scary experience and one that left me feeling Heartlands is being run into the ground.

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Response from Heartlands Hospital 5 years ago
Heartlands Hospital
Submitted on 12/12/2018 at 12:12
Published on nhs.uk at 13:06


Responded: 12.12.18

Dear Margaret

I am very sorry to learn of your experience whilst you were an inpatient under the care of our Trust and the impression that it has left.

Your posting will be passed onto the senior team. If you would be willing to provide further details, as a Trust, we would welcome the opportunity to review your care.

You can do this by contacting a member of the Patient Relations Team on 0121 424 0808 or you can email your concerns to bhs-tr.Complaints-ConcernsandCompliments@nhs.net who can then take the necessary action.

If you do contact our team, can I please ask you to advise the member of staff that you are responding to your Care Opinion / NHS Choices Posting.

I hope this is acceptable and once again thank you. Patient feedback is extremely important to us and we really appreciate your input.

Kind regards

Patient Experience Team

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