Nursing home/ hospital stuff

Errata

TBH I think you have every right to feel as you do, and more. You may be able to find inspecion reports on the smaller home here http://www.cqc.org.uk/registeredservicesdirectory/rsquicksearch.asp although they report system has now changed it should give you a broad idea of what the inspectors thought of the home. The home your grandma is in now may also be on the same part of the ^^ website.

getmore4less

The mistake that was made was finding somewhere else and saying it could be paid for.

She never should have been released from hospital.

Bed pressure is used to try to get paitient out but if you push back they have to give in since they cannot admit bed presure rather than patient needs is driving the discharge.

IT takes ages for a hospital to oranise the proper dischrge especialy if there are potential funding issues, never aggre tp pay anything and the means testing will take ages so they have to keep you once in the system .

As has been said put in an official complaint and include the GP they should have been involved.

downshifter

Thanks to everyone who responded to this, I didn't mean it to go on, it was just me having a rant.

To be honest this lady doesn't have any family etc who can take up complaints and so on as recommended, and as you and I might do. My mother is her church visitor, neither the vicar nor the person who supports the visitors seems to have been able to help much in practical terms. Luckily my mother, who has done all the running around with this, has lots of close friends and family who have supported her. But my mother at 85 really can't start taking up cudgels on her friend's behalf, all she can do is make her as comfortable as possible and spend time with her. My mother has virtually lost her own life through all of this, though now is regaining some of her own time and activities.

I am disturbed that mercedes125 has had similar problems, I saw something recently on tv which was such a good example of how nursing/old people's homes should be run - why are some stuck in the dark ages with prices which rob people?

In the case of my mother's friend, she's been there over a week now and has more or less resigned herself to being on the scrapheap. To uproot someone from their much loved little home and move them to another strange house in this way is just criminal. If someone turned up here now as I sit here in my dressing gown enjoying the fireside in my little cottage and took me out into an ambulance and moved me to somewhere I had never been before, with no comforts, none of my own things other than what I am wearing now, no-one explaining anything to me other than to say it would be my life for ever - well I check out the kennels my dog goes to better than that.

Oh dear, rant over. Sorry! But thanks for all the advice and sympathy.

DS

Maybeanotherday

I'm strugging to understand why she needed nursing care and not residential! was she considered against continuing healthcare?

downshifter

skellett wrote: »

I'm strugging to understand why she needed nursing care and not residential! was she considered against continuing healthcare?

No idea, A...........d said she couldn't go back as she was now in need of nursing care rather than just care care. I wonder if they had maybe thought that for a while and were glad when the opportunity arose following her hospitalisation to actually move her out. I suspect that she is probably quite demanding, she's a very 'particular' type of lady! My mother didn't think she needed nursing care either, but maybe it was something hidden, for example perhaps she had become incontinent, there's no way she would have told my mother that.

Maybeanotherday

downshifter wrote: »

No idea, A...........d said she couldn't go back as she was now in need of nursing care rather than just care care. I wonder if they had maybe thought that for a while and were glad when the opportunity arose following her hospitalisation to actually move her out. I suspect that she is probably quite demanding, she's a very 'particular' type of lady! My mother didn't think she needed nursing care either, but maybe it was something hidden, for example perhaps she had become incontinent, there's no way she would have told my mother that.

There is strict formats that the hospital have to follow if moving someone into nursing care which includes assessing them against the contiuing healthcare framework.
They are support to contact at the very least a social worker for her regardless of her present money situation! Sounds very dodgy and unprofessional to me!