Negligent and fraudulent
Samples that were taken from me on the first day were lost, then the samples I gave every day after were not looked into until a week after admission, causing them to miss the conditions that I went in with whilst being given a treatment plan that did not work, so my health deteriorated. I had two nurses enter my room and leave me on the floor in crippling pain for over an hour before a third nurse helped me into bed. Then nobody would help me to go to the bathroom despite my condition causing frequent bowel movements and very loose stools with significant bleeding. I was left in a bed of filth and blood for almost 10 hours and was given no medication or painkillers for 13 hours despite been prescribed with 4 hourly doses of 60mg cocodamol and 10ml oral morphine plus medication. My medical file was at one point left at the end of my bed and I opened it to find that it documented a medical condition that I do not have and that I had been taking medication for it for 2 years. This condition was HIV, to which I had and always have tested negative. The Dr who put it on my records had to come to apologise and said that he decided to do it of his own accord despite the fact that there was no evidence to support it. I often had to wait many hours longer than should have been the case to receive the treatment that I should have. My mental health deteriorated to the point of feeling like ending my life, the staff were told that I needed to be on a 1:1 but they decided that they could not spare the staff, they also did not follow the instructions of the psychiatrist who saw me on the ward, resulting in me not receiving the medication that she advised. I was left feeling uncared for and anxious and afraid that I would be left in suffering or worse. I also felt as though I had been subjected to prejudice and discrimination that resulted in the fraudulent information and then the lack of care.