Carers Allowance?

rockingbilly

spadoosh wrote: »

She has been in hospital (she had surgery, its rarely done in a back alley now a days?!) she has been in for two weeks, supposed to be a couple of days. Shes moved ward 4 times i think. She was given the responsibility of having a bell because the buzzers didnt work and was told by one nurse that she couldnt go to sleep in case a new patient needed help, she was also put on an end of life ward. She had a cast incorrectly put on, shes routinely had drugs administered as late as 00:30. She also had comments about bed blocking made to her and comments on body hair. Now the bed blocking issue has very little to do with the patient and everything to do with social care. So thanking her lucky stars? I doubt she was.

The reason it took two weeks for us to get her home was because a social worker didnt turn up until day 11, having missed two appointments, and we didnt know any of the process involved. Having broken down a few times we decided it best to get her out asap and to have her with us. It also took over 24 hrs for her to be discharged because a doctor need to look at an xray which took all of 2 minutes.

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This is turning out to be a 'knock the NHS'.
What you describe as 'care' whilst in hospital is more the norm than anything. My wife had to ring the night staff every night to make sure that my 'feed bag' was renewed. The answer was normally - yes it has. Then she would ring me on the ward telling her it hadn't. Drug round after midnight - quite normal.
As for Social Services carrying out an assessment, I only found out that it should have happened years later and that I should have been offered at least 6 weeks of post discharge care. Actually got nothing - no help from anybody.

A friend a few years ago was discharged off the ward in the early hours. No money for a telephone call or to pay a taxi, he started to walk the 14 miles home. Halfway there a passing police car stopped and asked if everything was OK. When he told them the story they took him home. Got home and had to wake his wife up as she was fast asleep in bed and had not been informed of his discharge.