King George Hospital

King George Hospital 2024-04-17 Person 4 5 0

I fell unwell with a sickness and diarrhoea bug late Thursday into Friday morning and after passing and vomiting blood about 4am Friday morning I went to hospital at 5:30am. The staff were all great, a few miserable people on the front desks that didn’t obviously want to be there and wasn’t helpful but the nurses and doctors acted quickly when i was still vomiting waiting. I was quickly given an anti-sickness drip and fluid and given a bed on a ward all by 7am which for A&E I personally thought was very efficient. Everyone treated me with respect, the doctor come around a lot quicker than I was told and was with me by 9am I was discharged by 11:30am after the correct treatments.

Only one thing I will say is the nurses on Minor ward wasn’t quick at answering the bell when I needed the toilet. I still had diarrhoea and needed to get to the toilet quickly but they took their time. All I will ask is if the nurses looking after certain patients be mindful of what they’re in there for as i almost had a few accidents due to not being quick enough. My bed was the furthest from the toilet and the nurse wouldn’t bring a commode in as i was able to walk to the toilet which I didn’t think was fair considering how unwell I was.

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 4 5 0

Doctor was good in explaining issues and took the time to undertake all tests.

Waiting time too long (11 hours wait).

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 4 5 0

On the whole treated really well, but there was a period of about 3 hours ehere no one was seen from the waiting room - would of been nice yo be checked on. Different people were being told different information - but on the whole people were great.

If people needed their regular meds there wasn't Amy facility to provide this, thankfully I brought mine from home

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 3 5 0

Overall experience was good but the negative was the time it took to do anything! 4 hours for a scan! Hours and hours wait to see a doctor

Please improve the time it take to see the patient! It shouldn’t be in hours.

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 1 5 0

Firstly I came in with a letter from the GP with low calcium. Doctors did a blood test But not calcium only full blood. I was then sent over to the main a&e and they did not have any record of bloods take me so took some more. The doctor was very dismissive and did not look into why I was there just said calcium has rises now. I also said previously after surgery my calcium took a long while to recover and she wrote the opposite in my discharge letter.

Communication and listening to the patient. Doing the right bloods and then not losing them.

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 5 5 0

My overall experience was very positive. The receptionist at tte A&E ( NOT the one in inner cubicle of urgent care) was wonderful, sympathetic and professional. The Doc who saw me in the urgent care area FIRST before I was transfered to the A&E area was very extremely kind and understanding. ( sincere apologies, I was too weak to acknowledge and now recall any names). The doctor who then assessed me in the A&E area before setting up the possibility to be transferred to Queen's as well as the doctor/ nurse who set up the cannula were both very friendly, understanding and professional. Really kind and sympathetic to say the very least. I was well informed and knew exactly what the plan was for me going forward. I was then transferred to bay 16 in Majors and was well looked after by Sona and another two Asian nurses who were so very kind( apologies again for not mentally registering any names ) even the male nurse who took my final vitals before I was discharged, was so very kind and cared with a smile . Finally Dr I Postma who consolidated my care before discharge, was also ABSOLUTELY brilliant and explained things very well and true to his word , passed on my updated notes to my G.P. Overall, I hope I do not need to visit the hospital again, but that said, the MEDICAL staff were wonderful and we should all be proud to be served by the NHS .

I was extremely weak when I cane in due to a significant amount of blood loss through vaginal bleeding. The lady at the FIRST point/ counter who was assessing the incoming patients was not only cold and indifferent, but she spoke to us ALL like we were waiting for free food in an asylum camp screaming out " NEXT ' like we were such a nuisance to her . She was rude and scarily indifferent without so much as any form of kind eye contact. I think she hates the job she is in and perhaps needs to be offered more options so that she can ve happy at work. I was then admitted into bay 16 (Majors) and as one can imagine, eating anything was the LAST THING on my mind and so ,when a flat voice called out from the other side of a closed curtain, if I wanted something to eat, I merely asked for a black coffee which I was then given as though I was granted a big favour that I didn't deserve. Later that same evening at well past 8pm, I was really hungry by then, but the hostess was so visibly indifferent and didn't so much as look up except to firmly make it known, that I couldn't have a sandwich AS WELL AS a biscuit for later ( as I was told there would be a long wait till my transferr to Queen's and so was hoping to hang on to a biscuit to keep me going until then) . I do not think, one has to have Five Star service qualification or customer service experience, but a warm presence and a kind, rather than a dismissal tone is the very least that should be expected when you're lying in wait with anxiety or total tiredness . Please, do train your FIRST POINT OF CONTACT as well as your food hostess, to ATLEAST speak in a warm and friendly manner and with atleast an ounce of sympathy. As an ex Chief flight, attendant, I wish I could train your staff, who especially serve from the NON medical side of the patient's experience, on how to speak, treat patients well and with respect, and the use of appropriate body language that can make all the difference to the experience of a patient. I cannot believe, that all the nurses and doctors from the medical front were absolutely brilliant and so classy whilst ( and with all due respect) those who sadly do not have half the skilled qualifications required are the ones who ruin the good name of the medical professionals who work hard and put in long and unthankful hours by their lack of sympathy, humility and passively disguised arrogance. Once again, a BIG thank you to all the BRILLIANT medical staff. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK .

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 5 5 0

They were very efficient kind and understanding.

None whsts do ever all good

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 1 5 0

Absolutely terrible service. Waited nearly 10 hours and didn’t even get to see a nurse or doctor.

EVERYTHING!!!!!!

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 2 5 0

Nurses were great, kind helpful, the lady bringing tea coffee. Didn't see doctor until 12 hours. Waited doctor came in the end didn't say anything. Nothing was told about X-rays, ecg or blood results very long wait with no information

If doctor even saw me once. If results if test explained. 12 hours and nothing.

King George Hospital 2024-04-16 Person 4 5 0

We came in at 3:30pm and waited for 3 hours before being seen and for a total of 7 hours we were there

Improve the waiting time as well as the communication between the nurses and doctors