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Written by a carer
12th June 2019


Sadly, my mother had two stays in Northampton General prior to her death in April 2019. Both experiences were pretty dreadful. Where she was seen by a consultant for a specific condition, then the treatment was good but sadly there does not seem to be an overall view of the patient's condition. The first time Mum was discharged, it is now clear that she had already developed blood clots on her lungs which were not diagnosed. Her second admission was only about two weeks after her first discharge. The wards are noisy with the beds close together. The worst experience was on the Walter Tull Ward - supposedly one of the newest and best - you never saw the same consultant or nursing staff twice . They are all just working off notes and not relating to the patient. You wouldn't put a dog through what my mother went through. When it was clear to the family that my mother had an incurable disease, was distressed and asking to die, we had to work extremely hard to get her out of hospital. I shudder to think what you would go through if you had no family or friends to fight for you. It is not necessarily the fault of individual staff - it is a machine, a factory. Thank goodness, we got Mum home to die in peace. Her experience was simply dreadful.

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