Nursing - News August 29, 2013

Man says stay in hospital was terrible (This is Wiltshire)
UNSANITARY conditions and lack of care at Great Western Hospital turned what should have been a routine admission into a nightmare, a patient has claimed.

NHS 'gets 3,000 complaints a week' (Hampshire Chronicle)
The total number of complaints, including for family services, was 162,019 in 2012/13 - the equivalent of more than 3,000 written complaints every week.

Mid Staffs Trust To Be Prosecuted Over Death (Ananova)
Gillian Astbury died at Stafford Hospital in 2007 after entering a diabetic coma, with an inquest deciding that a failure to administer insulin was a gross failure to provide basic care.

Patients' views sought ahead of Croydon University Hospital inspection (Croydon Guardian)
Patients' views are being sought on the care provided at Croydon University Hospital ahead of its inspection by the Care Quality Commission next month.

Sime Darby, Ramsay eye health expansion (Business Times)
MELBOURNE: Private hospitals operator Ramsay Health Care will further develop plans to increase the number of hospitals it has in Asia.

Lawmakers To Hear Latest Offer F... (The Post-Journal, Jamestown New York)
Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards confirmed Wednesday that a $16.5 million offer for the Dunkirk skilled nursing facility has been made.

ER security guard says nurses thought he was joking when told man had died (Weyburn This Week)
A security guard working at a Winnipeg hospital says he raised concerns about how long a man had been waiting in the emergency room.

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