Richard Waugh

Review of Tameside Acute Foundation Trus...

So my partner is being discharged from your Stamfo...

So my partner is being discharged from your Stamford unit today, she has actually discharged herself, because after 2 and half weeks she's not had nearly enough physio than she should have, they even admitted that people complain they don't get enough physio, last week I got barred from visiting my partner in the unit and I have been visiting her in reception, the reason why is because a man & woman from physio came to have a talk with me, the woman was lying about things to my face, tried to manipulate my partner in to saying they've been and said this that and the other to her when they hadn't, and she wouldn't listen to me she just kept being all defensive so I ended up getting angry and was asked to leave, I should have held my nerve more but after over 6 years of tameside hospital messing her about, wrong diagnosis etc etc etc, she's been treated disgustingly, it just came to a head, i apologise for my behaviour I am ashamed of myself, now the man is lying, said she did more than she did on Monday, and also they asked for measurements of the height of where she sits at home, the height of the bed and the height of the toilet, he's now turned round and said she's ready to go home which she isn't but there is no point at all her being there, he said she doesn't need anything aides at home because the measurements are the same as the bed, chair and toilet on the unit, now 1: the bed is lower, the bed on the unit can move up and down, so it is higher than the one ate home, the toilet at home is a standard toilet the same as the unit but on the unit there is a heightened seat with handles to help get up and lower down on to it, so she needs one of them also, the settee a where she sits at home is much lower than the chair she sits on at the unit, 2: everything at the unit has handles so she can use them to help her get up or lower herself down, the settee, bed and toilet don't have them, I'm sick of the lies and she has just wasted over 2 weeks getting hardly any physio, they turn up when they want, she has to ask if they are coming because I was supposed to visit her but they said they might come later or might not, so I cant go and visit her in case they turn up, I've not visited her on a few occasions because physio have said they are going and a doctor to see her also, and each time none of them have turned up, so she's getting upset because she hasn't seen me and me too, it's a shambles that place, you can definitely tell it's part of tameside hospital, all the characteristics are there, she is type 1 diabetic, her eyes are really bad and she has cataracts on each eye, the first night she was there a nurse gave her a fortisip which contains 27 grams of sugar in! In the morning her blood sugar was sky high and they were fighting to get it down, she almost went to A & E! The physios never turned up but they said they did and told my partner they didnt do physio because of her high blood sugars, she was trying to manipulate my partner in saying they did tell her that when she didnt! Lies lies and more lies, I've been to pals, told the sister and nothing has been done about anything, people who work at that hospital no matter what capacity, pals included, all pee in the same pot, therefore nothing ever gets done, i reported all this and more to pals, who said they spoke to somebody, which I know is the pharmacist, who said she will raise concerns to the sister, I asked the sister about it and she knew nothing about it, so either that pharmacist never told the sister, or she did and the sister lied, either way that's disgusting, a while back a porter even tipped her out of her wheelchair, nothing got done about that! There are absolutely loads of things we have written down, times, dates etc on things your hospital has done to my partner, disgusting behaviour from a place that is supposed to care for there patients, they don't care one bit, and dont give me all that rubbish that the NHS is struggling with having not enough staff, when she stays in Manchester royal there are plenty of nurses & they're all great!