Hospitals to avoid (posted in wrong place, apologies)

[langlounge]

From NHS Managers Net, some useful advice (as kindly pointed out, CQC stands for Care Quality Commission):

Should you be taken ill, I recommend having pinned to your waistcoat a twenty pound note and a list. This list should be compiled of hospitals you do not wish to be conveyed to and the twenty pound note should be enough for a taxi to take you to where you do want to be looked after.

Take my advice, always use a licensed taxi and use this list of hospitals you should avoid:

Scarborough Hospital; Milton Keynes Hospital; Royal Cornwall Hospital; Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool; Queen's Hospital, Romford; Stamford & Rutland Hospital; Southampton General Hospital; Croydon University Hospital; Bodmin Hospital, Cornwall; Northampton General Hospital; St Peter's Hospital, Maldon; Queen Mary's Hospital, London; Chase Farm Hospital, London; Westmorland General Hospital; Pilgrim Hospital, Leicestershire; St Anne's House, East Sussex; and Princess Royal Hospital, West Sussex.

Should you be having a baby; don't be delivered to, or at, Queen's Hospital in Romford, Essex and if a mental health issue befalls you dodge going to Ainslie and Highams Inpatient Facility, London; The Campbell Centre, Bedford; Forston Clinic, Dorset; The Cavell Centre, Peterborough; The Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Leicestershire; Avon and Wiltshire NHS Mental Health Trust; Blackberry Hill Hospital, Bristol; and Park House, Manchester. If dementia knocks on your door don' t go into Milton Keynes.

How can I give this advice? These services have been found wanting; not that the CQC made it public. The Labour opposition team forced them into fessing-up using FoI procedures. As recently as November the CQC has been telling these Trusts, incomprehensibly, it seems, in secret, that in parts of their services staffing levels are dangerous.

[Otta]

I don't think ?20 would get me to many of those anyway.

[Ted Max]

There's no way I'm pinning anything to my waistcoat. It would ruin the leather fringing.

[LondonMix]

How can you tell people to always take a taxi. In certain emergencies, it certainly will be much more important that paramedics come to the scene and start treatment en route in a blue light ambulance.

[Huggers]

in which case you can use the twenty quid to bribe them to take you to a different one.

[ianr]

Original article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/9797839/Seventeen-NHS-hospitals-have-dangerously-low-numbers-of-nurses.html

BBC News version: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21002205

[*Bob*]

Even in a licensed London minicab.. sounds a like a recipe for waking-up ?20 down, with a stolen waistcoat and a sore bottom.

[*Bob*]

In Penge.

[Jah Lush]

langlounge Wrote:

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(CQC stands for Quality Care Commission):

Oh no it doesn't. That'd be QCC wouldn't it?

[langlounge]

"Also named is the London Ambulance Service........" BBC News version as per above link.