My wife has been admitted twice following 999 calls within days of each occasion, clearly the discharge first time was wrong but that is another matter, my main concern is with health and safety.
During my wife's stays she was accommodated in a number of different wards and a number of different rooms within those ward so when visiting I witnessed the situation in a number of places where the problem was repeated.
The problem being that corridors within wards are so cluttered with equipment that the movement of patients is made difficult. On her second admission she was moved from A&E to a ward, on the second afternoon, when I was visiting I therefore followed the porter on his journey, the porter had to stop 5 times on that journey to move items into doorways etc to enable passage.
My concerns for all patients at BGH is that in an emergency evacuation would be impossible and lives could be lost.
"Health & safety concerns"
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