tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post7757981766308999740..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: No we don't, we need to give them a glass of water...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-29179403296771109442011-11-11T12:17:05.478+00:002011-11-11T12:17:05.478+00:00A recent experience with the NHS showed its great ...A recent experience with the NHS showed its great ability to perform a high tech and high cost operation and then to provide stunning 121 care in intensive care and on the high dependency unit. However it then went on to demonstrate a complete inability to provide edible food or effective 'hydration' once transferred to the ward for three weeks of recuperation. <br /><br />The problem here lies in the different power bases in different silos and a lack of concern for patient experience on their journey through the system. And as for 'discharge'? Best call that a bureaucratic process for liability avoidance....Mike Chittyhttp://leedscd.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-38693158744603978632011-11-11T12:09:33.794+00:002011-11-11T12:09:33.794+00:00My experience of a number of elderly relatives in ...My experience of a number of elderly relatives in hospital is that they often don't eat or drink unless helped to do so, and the nursing staff are too busy, or don't see it as their job, to do so.<br /><br />When both my late mother-in-law, and my mother, were in hospital for extended stays, we had to have a rota of visits to feed them and help them drink. Otherwise, food and drink was cleared away untouched.<br /><br />I heard a story only the other day of someone whose elderly father died of starvation in hospital.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com