It appears that I have also joined this thread very late – sorry, and sorry to hear of your truly awful ordeal! I am glad she is better though.

I come from Croydon, so I know what hospital you are talking about – won’t mention it to be on safe side… 😉

An incident occurred with a resident of my street at that hospital. She went into labour, and had a successful delivery (baby girl!), but was then left on a ward. She was supposed to be checked upon every hour, however, nobody did for 3 hours 😮 . In this time she had had a rupture within her womb, and lost 3 pints of blood…

I am absolutley appauled at the way people are treated at this hospital, and felt absolute rage towards the trust involved…in my opinion the NHS has taken a giant leap backwards since Labour came to power. They always seem to be saying things are improving, but when you hear stories like these, and also the statistics of rising MRSA levels, you really do have to take what they say with a pinch of salt!