Rubbish! Absolute and total nonsense and you should be very wary of making such claims without the evidence to back it up for the following reasons….
1. The notes left at the end of the beds should be nursing notes. A way of recording progress or otherwise of a patient and in my experience have NEVER had DNR written on them.
2. If they were the patients full hospital notes then they should never have been left on the bed and as such Addenbrooke’s were guilty of occasioning a potential breach in patient confidentiality.
3. YOU had no right whatsoever to look at those notes and breach someone’s confidentiality. For an ex Policeman that is absolutely appalling behaviour.
5. If the notes you refer to are the complete patient’s medical notes then they would NOT be kept at the end of the bed but in a trolley adjacent to the main nurses station.
Your post, made with no knowledge and, were it possible, even less thought, is deeply insensitive and is downright offensive to the medical profession in general and to the staff at Addenbrooke’s in particular. You comment here on things of which you know nothing and in the process try to bring into disrepute the very profession who, by their unstinting efforts, is keeping you alive.
I went to visit my other halfs Grandmother in Hospital 2 months ago, and all of her notes had been left on the end of her bed (not hung up on the end, I mean on the sheets at the bottom end of the bed) we didn’t look too far into them, but I would estimate there were approximately 20 A4 sheets in there. this was a plastic folder, in addition to the normal notes hung on the end of the bed.
Someone had also been stealing her books and magazines, and her sheets looked like they hadn’t been changed for ages too.
Given other grievances I’ve had with this Hospital, I had assumed this kind of poor service was the norm.
It’s all well and good defending your experiences with the NHS, but that doesn’t mean that every hospital is operating to a good (or acceptable) standard.
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