Farnham Road Hospital

Farnham Road Hospital 2023-08-21 Person 1 5 0

I've been here for four days with no leave and no proper explanation for why I'm here. The ambulance crew just came into my hostel one morning and brought me here. The food is so terrible I wouldn't feed it to a rabbit. I can hear patients screaming inside their rooms and the staff don't do anything. I'm dumbfounded, most of the patients are still having a great time regardless.

Farnham Road Hospital 2023-06-30 Person 1 5 0

I was sectioned for having mania and psychosis on 26 November 26 2022. Surrey Police smashed in the door to my ground floor flat and it was left open during the whole of my 3 week stay at Farnham Road Hospital. I was held in the assessment suite which was basically a prison cell for at least 72 hours and during this time I was not allowed out for fresh air. Some of the staff made cruel personal comments to me obviously based on information that the NHS hold about me. They clearly don't understand what a mental health crisis is. When I was finally taken up to the Magnolia Ward I turned on the shower in my room before getting in it and boiling hot was was coming out of it. I would have been scolded and scarred for life if I hadn't tested the water first . One mental health worker actually said that anyone with mental illness should start the day with an ice cold shower to 'snap' them out of it. What on earth?! Sometimes the staff would promise that you would be allowed out later that day for some fresh air then wouldn't let you out at all. Lots of false promises were made and one night they didn't give me the medication that I need because I was 'asleep', they should have woken me up to take it. The Magnolia Ward's staff should all be struck off for incompetence and the Ward should be shut down. It is not fit for purpose.

Farnham Road Hospital 2023-03-20 Person 1 5 0

I was section in December 2022 for psychosis was laughed at by the staff not aloud out for fresh air all the time I was there for given another patient medication and told to spit it out my family could never get hold of staff to see how I was and then released while still in a psychotic episode so need to being section 10 days later and I was very scared and suicidal but ended up at Woking hospital and was very nice there

Farnham Road Hospital 2022-07-16 Person 5 5 0

Very friendly service

Farnham Road Hospital 2020-11-06 Person 2 5 0

June - September 2019 sectioned on a section 3 for Bipoler Disorder. I was frequently ‘restrained’ and Injected with medication, dragged to seclusion, sat in countless Dr meetings for my view never taken seriously. I was deemed treatment resistant . Newsflash I wasn’t treatment resistant, I have responded perfectly well to Lithium which was not offered by this hospital who favour antispychotics such as Olanzapine which makes you gain a few stone at least. The consultant was wonderful but the nursing staff were jaded, cynical, rude and talked to me like a lesser citizen, I could name a few who did this (Magnolia Ward) but my view might not be published. The physical surroundings are great, very modern and clean with some activities, but this hospital really needs to Change the way they treat young women. Older men are treated with far more compassion and understanding and women always labelled with either Pd or mania. Granted I was manic but the hospital made it so much harder for me to regain my life outside. I am still traumatised by the memories of being pinned to the floor and jabbed in the arse, and all the other memories of being in Magnolia. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND but Re physical appearances this is the best hospital you can be in being built 5 yrs ago.