The NHS trust running Tameside Hospital was named by health care regulators today as one of 24 in the country identified as 'high risk'. A report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said almost a quarter of NHS trusts have been identified as high risk and may not be offering safe, good-quality care to patients. Analysis by the regulator found 44 trusts with the most serious level of concern, including higher than expected death rates across their hospitals.
All 161 trusts were divided into six bands, with band one being the highest risk and band six the lowest. There were 44 trusts in the two bands with the highest risk, with 24 trusts in the highest possible band, band one. Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was placed in band one. Read more: Manchester Evening News
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I have just spent 6 days in Tameside hospital following a heart attack on the 15th October.
My observations?
At night time you can hear the elderly and chronically sick crying out for help. It eventually arrives. Sometimes not in time though. Sheet changes are then the order of the day.
If you take your own medication into hospital for an already existing complaint don't expect to have it given to you at the right time or amount. Mine was not.
Expect good service from the ambulance drivers, doctors and real nurses. But from the auxiliaries expect cries for help and alarms on the machines to be very low priority.
Finally, expect to wait hours to be discharged as you wait for the pharmacy to issue your medication, some of which you brought in yourself.
If you were issued a prescription in Tameside hospital a couple of years ago you could ONLY get it filled at the hospital pharmacy, as far as I know this is still the case.
I got one, went to the pharmacy to find it had closed at 2pm. I had to wait until the next day which of course could have exacerbated my condition.
I asked to speak to the pharmacist when I picked up the prescription but he couldn't explain how the hospital had the authority to dictate where you can get a prescription filled.
Le Pen says 'non' to the BNP and Ukip says no to the FN.
With some recent experience of Tameside Hospital I can only say that the Consultants, Doctors, Nurses and Auxiliaries were first class.
The problem is the LACK OF STAFF, not the quality plus the standard of management, which leaves a lot to be desired. The billions this country spends on foreign aid should be spent on recruiting more nurses and putting more police on the streets.
A hospital prescription can only be dispensed at the hospital and while agreeing that the waiting time for discharged patients isn't acceptable, this again can only be due to staffing levels.
First class my back side ? They should sack the lot from top to bottom ? They killed my mum ? The place is filthy and when you catch a bug and the doctors prescript a drug the nurses cant be arsed to give them to you untill its to late ? 9 days with out her drugs my mum was and they were for a bug she got when in there ? Its a sh-t hole
Your one sick man ALF
SICK ? Dont think so and if i was that would be the last place i would go for help ? Whas up do you not like the truth ?
No I just think your a knob
Stop provoking Alf. He made a decent point that few would disagree with.
ha ha ha if i was a knob who`ll be the first one on it
Whoever you drive past and doesn't tell you to piss off I'd imagine.
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