A LOST neighbour/patient
Recently we had occasion to try to FIND a missing neighbour. We'd had Police and Ambulance crews at our door several times in response to calls from a worried friend of our next door neighbour who said that he'd been unable to locate her after she was (apparently) taken by ambulance to Heartlands. He, and we, has called and emailed Heartlands and PALS several times making inquiries, but to be told that there was NO PATIENT of that name in their hispital. This wasn't just once, but many times between us. I'd also contaced each of the other Birmingham hospitals, PLUS those outlying, each with the same result. Our neighbour's friend eventually caught up with her, though without explanation of WHY she could not be identified! Surely in today's world with ultra-secure communications it cannot be possible for patients to DISAPPEAR/GO MISSING? Please explain!