I've finally landed on the ward that I need to be on and it turns out the lights are all LED so I shouldn't have needed to wait 6 days.

[happytulip]

The title says it all really.

I have finally landed on the ward for Acute medics and an pleased to be under the correct team. However, can you imagine my frustration when I was wheeled on and ALL the lights are LED, not a fluroecent light insight. I hand been assured that everything was being done to accommodate me including the trust purchasing portable LED lights.

The estates and facilities teams had been contacted who said this ward had fluroecent lights, the lead nurse said that the lights were fluroecent, everyone who was asked said the lights were fluroecent and not LEF. I offered multiple times to come up in a wheelchair and check the lights but I was told that I couldn't. After 6 days of waiting to be moved to the appropriate ward and not recieving appropriate medical care on the ward that I was stagnating on, can you imagine my shock when I saw that I could have been up here 6 days ago, getting the care that I need.

I feel a fool and what a waste of time for everyone. Time is so precious and the senior staff of the hospital have been using their time to solve a problem that wasn't a problem in the first place. Not to mention the time that Paul Howard spent trying to help me when that time could have been allocated to others.

Seriously, how many matrons does it take to change a light bulb? And if they can't tell one light bulb from another, how can they tell their bottom from their olecrolon?

Best to all

HT 🌷

[baba]

Hope you get your medical treatment sorted now.

Best wishes.

[PMRpro]

Once upon a time it was the in-house electricians and we all had a hot line to them - now the services are bought in contractors and they are rubbish ...

[happytulip in reply to PMRpro]

In this place estates and facilities are the electricians so should know which wards have which lights. They got it wrong plain and simple.

And they tell us that stress makes AI disease worse.

Interestingly my ESR has gone up since the pred has gone down.

[PMRpro in reply to happytulip]

How very interesting!!!

Probably didn't even look ...

[Kevin53]

Why did the hospital believe they had different lights in the two wards? Hope the treatment goes well now. Best wishes Kevin

[happytulip in reply to Kevin53]

That's a very good question Kevin, especially as the hospital purchased portable LED lights for me to go to the ward which already had led lights. No wonder the NHS has no money. Even worse, what if the .money for those unneeded lights came from the charity that is linked to the trust? Someone might have done some fundraising for the money to have been wasted. What a shame .

[GloomyEeyore]

I am so glad that you are now on the correct ward with the right care. Hope you feel better soon. Xx💐

[happytulip in reply to GloomyEeyore]

Thank you x

[svfarmer]

It’s an absolute joke isn’t it !!!

Am glad your finally on the correct ward and hope your hospital stay is not too long- big hugs 🤗🤗💕