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An awful disgusting experience that has scarred me...

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"An awful disgusting experience that has scarred me..."

About: Watford General Hospital

What could be improved

Blood over the toilets, broken showers, hard to use when you have needles everywhere. Very horrid staff, I was in tears as she humiliated me as I pooed while pushing.

My partner collapsed as I was having my epidural and the midwife pushed him and said he couldn't faint there.

Ward as blood filled plasters and cotton wool, no one approached me after going into the ward till 6 hours after and that was to say do I want anything? Yes, ibloody did. I wanted to pick up my baby as I couldn't move with the epidural, I wanted help breast feeding. No one told the bounty person that I was there. I was told off for taking my baby to the ward to ask for a piece of toast. She said do it yourself. No introduction. Rude staff.disgusting hospital

Anything else?

Cleaning needed. New staff and severe monitoring

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Response from Watford General Hospital 12 years ago
Watford General Hospital

Submitted on 12/03/2012 at 16:22
Published on nhs.uk on 13/03/2012 at 04:01

Thank you for taking the trouble to comment through our NHS Choices service. You’re clearly very unhappy about the experience you had at Watford General back in 2010 and issues of this nature are taken very seriously.

The importance of a ‘gold standard’ patient experience is one of our key objectives and communication between staff and patients is something we’re working hard to improve. If your experience has yet to be investigated already we know that our senior clinical colleagues will want to investigate this thoroughly on your behalf, if only to prevent something like this from happening again.

If you could get in touch with us by email (info@whht.nhs.uk), we will provide you with a detailed response on each of the issues raised.

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