Well Who is going to lose their Hospital ?

warmhands.coldheart

saverbuyer wrote: »

Or we could remove the waste from the other useless parts of our public sector, reduce the pensions and pay for some of the services we actually NEED. Do we really need 240,000 public sector workers??? ......

Yeah... Like that's going to happen!!

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May need to ivest in your own defibrillator if you live in the casueway area

suki1964

shell820810 wrote: »

I am in South Derry and already am 40 mins from Coleraine and Antrim (even more during rush hour) and about 45 from Altnagelvin (might as well just rule it out from November to February due to the state the Glenshane gets in the snow and Ice).

Antrim is already horrendous. It doesnt have the capacity to cope with any more.

Coleraine was brilliant when I was there, very efficient, and despite having to wait on a trolley for a while in the corridor, I had a bed in the ward within 4 hours. Dont even think I had been seen in Antrim at that stage.

I think the amenities for this area are already stretched and inaccessible/suitable for an emergency, let alone taking away one of those options.

You were very lucky

My dying father has just spent 2 nights in A+E on a trolley along with around 6 others waiting for beds

And this was 3 weeks after they had discharged him home because of pressure for beds, where we saw no sight of a GP or Social services till the day before he was admitted when it was obvious to a blind man he wasnt fit to be home

Yet if he had been discharged with a proper care package in place with the district nurse, GP, and social services supporting us we could have kept him home and made his last few days a bit more dignified


Sorry for the rant - Im just appalled by the "care" given at the causeway. Esp as last year my mother was mis diagnosed and was booked in to have major life threatening and disabling operation and it was only when she was at the Royal for her pre op assessment that they found there was actually nothing wrong with her