Argus title : The painful truth about NHS care
It’s difficult to know how and where to start this column. I find it so painful to write.
I wept as I watched the Panorama programme about care on Stewart and Peel ward in the Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH). My father was a patient there for a few days, shortly before his death in November last year. It is possible he was there during the time the documentary was being researched.
Though I was deeply upset by the suffering of elderly patients revealed in that documentary, and tormented by the thought that my father may have been ill-used in my absence, I was distressed most of all by the response of the Chief Executive. Continue reading