Good Hope Hospital

Brought my daughter, a minor under SEDS (eating disorders team within FTB) intensive intervention program, experiencing chest pain, dizziness, affected vision, headache.
We had been advised to go to A&E by her Core Worker in the SEDS team. Summary of the visit: it took 12 hours to get an ecg, blood pressure check and blood tests done and reviewed, one set of which was ordered after the results of the standard blood results came back, to request electrolytes check which should have been clear would be needed at the outset given her eating disorder and recent refeeding regime. It took around 6 hours before they took any bloods and 7 hours before they did an ecg - for an extremely underweight girl with chest pains. This is appalling. The length of visit also meant that she entirely missed her evening meal and evening snack as she cannot/will not eat in a public place - while on a regime that absolutely requires 3 meals 3 snacks every day, consequently undermining the work that we and the SEDS team are doing to restore weight. Both the ECG and (presumably) bloods could have been done as part of triage which would have saved at least 7 hours of our visit.
There is now a real danger that if our daughter suffers symptoms again she will not report it to us, and something serious could be missed.

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