Letters flood in over NHS TV set row
I was in St George's a few years back. I was fairly ill. Clue, I was in hospital...
The ward was arranged with alcoves containing six beds. One of the blokes in my alcove have a TV on constantly, loud. It drove me spare, and when I complained to the nurse she just shrugged. The ward was clearly badly managed anyway - the idea of mixing genders in the alcoves made a lot of people very uncomfortable. I'm sure if I had arrranged for a CD player to be brought in and had played it loud I would have been told to turn it off.
Just before my sister had my nephew, she was admitted to hospital with the chronic condition which subsequently led to her retirement. She was ill. She shared a four bed room with one other woman who had just given birth. This woman's entire extended family visited for extended periods, crowding the room, and making it noisy and very hot. My sister complained, because the ward rules were 'only three visitors per bed'. Her complaint was ignored amidst murmurs of 'cultural sensitivity'.
When my nephew was born I came on a flying visit to inspect, and at 1 minute past four, the end of visiting time (how ridiculous, anyway), I was asked to leave. My sister pointed out that other rules seemed to be broken, and some 'cultural sensitivity' would have realised that I had travelled up from London specially.
/moan
