Broomfield Hospital

Broomfield Hospital 2014-06-07 Person 5 5 0

I cannot praise the care, consideration, and treatment given to me during a very frightening time at the investigation and treatment of cancer, highly enough. The friendly caring staff and the excellent facilities made me appreciate what an exceptional hospital this is. Thank you.

Broomfield Hospital 2014-06-05 Person 4 5 0

I have had to attend for other ailments and the follow up results leave a lot to be desired. Car parking is atrocious

Broomfield Hospital 2014-06-04 Person 5 5 0

The only thing I would complain about is the parking i.e not enough spaces. other than that its a brilliant hospital

Broomfield Hospital 2014-05-30 Person 5 5 0

I had a mastectomy and reconstruction under the joint care of Miss Dua and Mr Ramakrishnan. The care I received before ,during ,and after has been second to none . I cannot speak highly enough about all of the Drs and Nurses. I have had several complications following surgery, through not fault of anyone.....just " one of those things" which has required me to return to hospital for regular check ups and one unexpected weekend stay for a course of intravenous antibiotics. I have always been treated with dignity and respect by all members of staff on Stock ward. I have just started my chemo experience at the hospital and everyone is making what I am finding difficult , much easier.

Broomfield Hospital 2014-05-28 Person 5 5 0

The team on wizard ward were fantastic and i was well looked after by them. I am much better now Thanks to you all. Abigail McNeilly

Broomfield Hospital 2014-05-21 Person 5 5 0

My mum was in ITU for major surgery, fantastic care and on the very busy surgical ward she was moved too as she recovered. My dad was in A&E, MAU, ESS, HDU and Heybridge ward within the last six months. Every single person we met working in the hospital was kind and professional. Both my parents in their 80's have been restored to health, our family are very grateful to the expertise of the staff at Broomfield hospital.

Broomfield Hospital 2014-05-13 Person 1 5 0

My husband was completely ignored on more than one occassion when attending A&E. A Month later he was diagnosed with cancer. I would go to any other hospital in the country to make sure I didn't have to attend this one again.

Broomfield Hospital 2014-05-03 Person 4 5 0

The hospital is welcoming, light and airy and has paintings on the walls. Staff, with only one exception, are hard-working, caring, approachable and helpful. On several occasions the administration has not proved brilliant. For example: I received a letter to tell me to go to theatre for admission at 7.30am for breast surgery. On arrival I was told I should go down to the Breast Unit for a scan and a wire to be put into my breast to aid the surgeon in finding the tumour. I had been told about this but received no advice letter regarding this. When I went down there at 7.40pm I was told as it was a Thursday there would be no-one in to do the wire etc until 8.45/9.00am. In other words I had to get up very early just to wait around. This could have been avoided if the admissions letter had taken account of this process and the times relevant staff come to work. Also: I had to go for a second pre-anaesthetic appointment and was asked to go and get my ECG results, which they had never received from the cardiac dept. the first time. I was told to ask for a printout from their records. I went as instructed and was told sharply by the receptionist that it was my fault that the pre-anaesthetic dept hadn't received the results as I should have taken them over at the time! I pointed out that I'd been totally unaware of this as no-one had mentioned it at the time. Then I asked if I could have a print-out of the records & then told sharply that "no, we don't keep records, we record over them." or words to that effect. So I had to wait for another ECG. When I went in and explained to the nurse she said that, not that wasn't the process, usually they are all put in a tray and at the end of the day someone from pre-anaesthetic comes and collects them all. This made complete sense to me. I had the second ECG and walked the results back over to Pre-anaesthetic personally. This was all rather surprising and unsatisfactory, particularly being spoken to as I was by the receptionist in Cardiac, as if it was my fault that the results hadn't got to Pre-anaesthetic nearly three weeks later, let alone in time for my first surgery which was two days after the initial ECG.

Broomfield Hospital 2014-04-23 Person 4 5 0

I was let down twice by the appointments system, resulting in a three month follow up appointment finally being eight months, and that was after several phone calls. Luckily my situation was not a serious one. One of the most annoying problems at the hospital is the parking situation, making it necessary to get there in time to allow a long time to park. On the plus side, all the staff I have come into contact with have been very polite and helpful, and the medical staff have all been excellent.

Broomfield Hospital 2014-04-16 Person 5 5 0

i have been treated at broomfield for two and a half years and continue to have treatment there,after such a negative diagnosis of cancer i have had such a positive experience at broomfield.i never feel like a patient i always feel like person because of how all of the staff treat me. i am under different departments,chemo unit breast unit,i always feel that the departments come together as one.all of the staff involve my family,which is so very important when your all living with cancer.i trust my oncologist completely and have a great relationship with him as do my family.