The promise was of a room in A&E until her bed became available.
Instead she had to wait in the Ambulance for an hour or so, before getting a bed (which my brother had to wipe someone else's blood off!) in a corridor.
She was finally moved into a room some 14 hours after arrival, but they had no morning medication for her numerous ailments, 6 days after suffering a stroke.
It wasn't until I threatened the head nurse with a complaint to the CQC that a doctor drew up a prescription, but even then it was 2pm before she was medicated.
In my experience, it's really important that you're there with your loved ones in a hospital as much as humanly possible, just to make sure they don't slip through the cracks.
Two and half days my mum spent in a side room, no chairs for visitors, bright fluorescent lights that couldnt be turned off or dimmed at night, never offered a drink or food, when she did ask she had missed meal times so got some stone cold leftovers.
The ward was marginally better. She is home now and doing ok so far.
Because if I do go into a pothole, and seriously damage myself, it'd be nice to know that an ambulance will turn up, and I won't be in a corridor for 18 hours waiting to be seen in A&E.
Is that top of your list of priorities?
Politicians should do what they were elected to do and not use Parliament to pointlessly grandstand meaningless motions. It was a pathetic example of our broken system and our abundance of self serving, poor quality leaders.
Labour's amendment, though it genuinely reflected some shifting position, was designed to head off any further rebellion. The Tories added what they knew was a wrecking amendment just to muddy the water and is almost unheard of by a governing party to an opposition motion. And although the SNP like to claim the moral high ground, the main purpose of the motion (the substance of which they'd already put forward a few weeks earlier) was to use as leverage against Labour in Scotland. This is patently obvious to those of us who live north of the border. And there is a wider point – grandstanding about motions in Parliament, Council chamber or constituency party might make the participants feel better, but it's largely performative in its (non) effects on the actual parties to the conflict. I am not saying do nothing. I want an immediate ceasefire, but let's have some sense of proportion and realism about what can actually bring it about.
but this speaker thing
it seems the SNP are butt hurt because Labour got an amendment that was worded a bit better ?
and by the speaker allowing it and a tory amendment to be voted on he went against convention, not law, just convention
are the snp just whinging because they know they are in decline
general election cant come soon enough
are labour perfect
NO
but fucking hell, compared to the rest its a no brainer
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