cancelled operations

This will get worse, a lot worse, if they tories get in an push through swinging cuts.

www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/12/nhs-agrees-largest-ever-privatisation-deal-to-tackle-backlog

Jess, they are not waiting to see if they get in.

JessM It sounds like DH's discharge from hospital last year which involved 5 hours sitting in the discharge "lounge" with nothing to eat or drink and no one checking his blood glucose although he is an insulin dependent diabetic. When I arrived, expecting to find him still on the ward, no one knew where he was! After I got him home the hospital rang to ask him to come back as they shouldn't have let him go - the answer was a resounding No!

The last time my husband was an in-patient, I went to accompany him in the ambulance to go to another hospital, and found he could not go because there was norovirus on the ward. I said I'd take him straight home but they would not let me as they said he had to sign himself out, and he was not capable of it. I rang his GP who said she would, but it still took 7 hours to get him off the ward. We were terrified that he would catch norovirus while waiting.
He had written on his notes that he was never going into hospital again, and he never did.

They are the accommodation of last resort aren't they durhamjen . My dear MIL was desperate to avoid them and fortunately her heart gave out at home, a couple of days before a hospital appointment in which I was going along to defend her choice not to have a leg-vein op. I do wonder at the enthusiasm to do elective surgery on someone in their 80s with advanced heart failure etc.etc.
I remember 30 years ago someone telling me that most surgery was performed on people in their 70s and 80s and being surprised.
They also do multiple rounds of chemo on people of 80+. I wonder how many really want it and how many are just being polite to the doctors.

Norovirus here too - lots of wards closed. It is really quite dangerous being in hospital.

A friend of mine was in hospital after a stroke and people were dying all around her of norovirus - she thankfully did not get it, but it is a terrible memory that has stayed with her.