Improvements in the NHS

Is this an example of improvements in the NHS

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Maggots found on patient's face
A woman was shocked to find maggots crawling on her mother's face in a hospital's intensive care unit.
Nyree Ellison Anjos alerted staff at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital when she saw the larvae wriggling near a feeding tube attached to her mother's nose.

Christine Ellison died two days later, but the family is satisfied the maggot incident had no bearing.

The hospital has apologised to the family saying it was "an isolated and rare occurrence."

'Sincere apologies'

Mrs Ellison Anjos, from Robinswood in Gloucester, said the incident happened on a hot day in July.

"We saw there was a fly flying around there. Everybody was making it go away even the staff in the hospital," she said.

"The next day I went there and there was this yellow thing by her tube and I thought that didn't look right. She kept touching her nose and fiddling and we could see it was bothering her.

"I had a close look and could see little maggots moving in there."

A statement from the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "We would like to offer our sincere apologies to the family of Mrs Ellison for any distress caused by this incident.

"We can confirm that a very small number of maggots, each the size of a pin-head, were found.

"The incident was incredibly rare and we took immediate steps to prevent it from happening again.

"We have always been commended for our high standards of cleanliness and hygiene and we take any incident such as this extremely seriously."

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Talk about dropping the ball. Im mean if I can keep maggots out of my house they can keep them from getting on a patients face right?

Yes indeed, what it needs is more funds to help(yeah_right).......ohhhh....sorry we can't do that, we gave all our loose change to Chirac.....:san_rolleyes: :san_laugh:

over to you then Linton.

Well, to be fair the NHS does treat a fair number of patients who don't acquire a selection of larvae. This is hardly the rule.

I read a newspaper report the other day that showed only 2 or so NHS hospitals made it into the top cleanest hospitals..

The matron system needs to be reintroduced..

At least she didn`t get her newly operated eye eaten by ants while still alive.

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Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

Well, to be fair the NHS does treat a fair number of patients who don't acquire a selection of larvae. This is hardly the rule.

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So this is good news then? :san_smiley:

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Originally Posted by Viking

At least she didn`t get her newly operated eye eaten by ants while still alive.

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I do hope this ....no I don't even.....I'll get me coat....

All I'm saying is that it seems unfair to discount all of the good work the NHS does do and lambast them over one flukey mistake. When you consider the number of patients they treat successfully, this isn't really that bad.

Unfortunately, where the NHS is concerned the papers only seem to see the bad side. This is understandable-after all, an operation being performed successfully isn't very interesting-but it does result in a somewhat one sided view of the health service's effectiveness.

BKS,

sadly, if you had up all the individual bad things that happen here and there you get quite a large number of bad things.