What are wards like after surgery?

wondercollie

In a public hospital, like all the others have said you are placed where your level of care can be met.
If you are that concerned about your accommodations, you might want to consider going private and paying for everything so it will meet your standards.
CoVid is still very real and every day at work, I am amazed at the attitude of our patients and their families.  There are no visitors permitted unless the patient is at the end of their lives (private rooms are reserved for palliative patients).  Designated support persons are permitted for language issues, developmental concerns or if they will provide hands on care for the physically unable.  Every day I see people who think they or their relative is more important than the rest of the people who are in for treatment.
And the thing with CoVid tests?  The test means that you were free of the virus at that specific moment in time when youy were swabbed.   You could have picked it the minute you left the testing centre.
You will be discharged home as quickly as the surgeon decides.  I've had patients who have tried to refuse to go home because they felt that they should have been permitted to stay longer.  If you need homecare it will be arranged.

leapyear

Hello all! I'm happy to say I have had my operation. I didn't mention my concerns of having a private room or not to any member of staff. I thought I'll have what I'm given; grateful that my operation was going ahead. Turned out, at my local hospital where there was a spare bed, all post op patients had their own room. A private company that worked within the hospital ceased last year and the nhs have acquired those rooms.
I have to say all staff were amazing, hard working and dedicated. I am so grateful for their help.