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Targets make patients wait in pain |
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Written by Mail Online
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Five-year-old with broken arm forced to wait 7 hours in casualty  A five-year-old girl was forced to wait almost seven hours in agony at Blackburn hospital casualty unit with a broken arm before receiving treatment.
Little Morgann Garner from Clitheroe was left distressed and in pain at the Royal Blackburn Hospital before doctors finally saw her in the early hours of the morning.They took X-rays and put her her right arm in a splint but her nightmare continued when she had to return to the hospital because the bone had been set wrongly.Click here for full News Article from the Daily Mail.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's Our NHS Campaign says WE'VE HAD ENOUGH!The transfer of A&E services to Blackburn has left THOUSANDS of people in East Lancashire with a health service like that of some banana republic. Shortage of beds, cancelled operations, waiting in pain to be treated, Ambulances queuing for HOURS outside Blackburn A&E, sent home without proper diagnoses, pensioners and children discharged too early only to be re-admitted. This problem will only be solved by re-instating Accident & Emergency facilities at Burnley General Hospital allowing valuable resources to be shared. The Blackburn Hospital simply cannot cater for the increasing population of East Lancashire, the sooner the Hospital Trust board understand that, the sooner we can prevent children like Morgann having to wait in pain for treatment. The LABOUR MP's Gordon Prentice (Pendle) and Kitty Ussher (Burnley) must act now and DO SOMETHING to STOP this disgraceful situation. Until now both MP's have refused to call upon the secretary of state for health for an inquiry, even though these DISGRACEFUL events appear in the NEWS almost every week! Please Support our campaign to re-instate A&E services at Burnley and STOP what we believe are a breach of human rights! This is the twenty first century, we deserve 21st century Healthcare. Do you have a story about your healthcare experiences at Burnley or Blackburn Hospital? Click here to POST your story or comment on our FORUM... [you may need to Register first] Click here to CONTACT US in confidence... |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 30 May 2008 )
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Patient sent home from Hospital with fractured skull |
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Written by It's Our NHS Team
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
HOSPITAL treatment at the Royal Blackburn Hospital has come under fire after a disabled Burnley woman who fractured her skull said she was sent home without treatment.Mrs Margaret Walsh (64) fell over a loose pavement slab and cracked her head in Clevelands Road while out with her son, David, and she was taken by ambulance was to Royal Blackburn Hospital.
Her husband Norman (60) said his wife, who has epilepsy and walks with a stick, waited for three hours to be seen by a doctor before being given the all-clear and sent home with painkillers.
But she was rushed to Burnley General Hospital overnight after she developed a severe headache, was bleeding from her ears and began vomiting. An X-Ray revealed she had fractured her skull and suffered bleeding on the brain.
The Hospital in Blackburn took on all emergency cases in November last year after Burnley Hospital's A&E department was downgraded to a minor treatment centre. Critics say this has placed undue pressure on the Blackburn site resulting in patients being incorrectly diagnosed and sent home too early. According to the latest report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), patients are frequently bundled out of NHS hospitals' emergency units before their medical condition has been properly assessed. Click here to read more... IN FEBRUARY this year, the Royal Blackburn Hospital sent a young child home with an inch-and-a half piece of glass still lodged in his knee. The child's mother was adament that the Hospital refused to X-Ray her son when he was first admitted. The glass was found upon X-ray when the boy returned to the hospital six days later. Click here to read more... |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 12 May 2008 )
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