Reviews
Reviews
I have received excellent care from my surgeon, oncologist and radiotherapy team. All staff I have come across have treated me with respect and compassion. It is the little things, like wonderful staff sharing a sense of humour and ensuring they call you by the right name, which make all the difference. The NHS is an amazing institution when you need it most. I just wish the staff were not so worked so hard!
Excellent hospital and staff. Very helpful and clean.
Exceptional care
I have received excellent care from the Surgeon, Doctors, and Nursing staff, and would recommend this hospital to any other patient.
All staff, clinical and ancillary, always have treated me helpfully and with respect. My impression generally is that the hospital is driven by patient needs.
Amazing staff and care by everybody in all departments. Nothing was to much trouble. Thank goodness for the NHS.
Seen on time by professional staff would recommend
The Hospital was bright airy and clean. The Radiotherapy Nurses were excellent in every way I could not fault them.
I recently under went major surgery at the Churchill for a vulvectomy and groin Lynch node removal due to cancer. The ward. I stayed on Jane Ashley was fantastic. The staff were great,friendly and caring always smiling and always made me feel like I mattered whilst under pressure with work load. I just want to say thank you to all the nurses you are doing a fab job keep up the great work it really is appreciated . .
The worse part was the waiting - staff shortages meant they were one operating theatre down, so my "urgent" cancer operation took place 39 days after the positive test results came through. The outpatients clinic was industrial in scale, though clean and bright.
On the morning of the operation, I was welcomed & prepared promptly by friendly staff, but then left alone in a bare, silent room for some time before going into surgery - some music or a magazine might have helped the nerves.
The staff and wards I was in were excellent (especially the post-op section), although the part of the cancer ward I was in had several terminal cases & an elderly lady with dementia, which didn't aid recovery at all. There is a good entertainment system, but at no time was this explained - a leaflet with the hospital brochure would have been good.
My main concern was the lack of attention to my food allergies. Although I'd filled in forms about these more than once before admission, I was given food which was potentially dangerous more than once. In my first 24 hours post-op all they could provide was a banana, some ginger nuts and a slice of ham from a sandwich. After that, my family brought me in a hamper! I noticed the same lack of attention to individuals with dementia sufferers, where pharmacists & physios visiting the ward seemed unaware of the problem & took the patients' words as truth (even to getting one out of bed!).