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Rotherham General Hospital had a fire on Tuesday afternoon 21 August on the top floor which is floor A, we were visiting
our son in the High Dependency / Intensive Care Units on B floor, when the fire alarm kept going off.
The nursing staff closed all doors on the units, & were kept informed of what was happening, in case of having to
transfer patients.
Has normal people were not allowed to use lifts, plus no one allowed to use stairs going up, just going down for exit.
When the all clear was given, we went out at 3.30pm & saw 3 fire engines outside main entrance, we were told there was another fire engine on the premises also.
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I had a job in the histology department on level A yesterday when the alarm went off and all the fire doors started closing. I assumed it was just a drill until I saw masses of people leaving their offices.
I was told later that it was someone smoking in the toilets on Ward A3/4 that triggered the alarm.
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Some people don't deserve medical careOriginally Posted by loyalmiller
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I agree but it could have been a visitor or even a worker
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RGH is one of the greatest places on Earth. They took great care of my Mum and Dad, my Wife and our two daughters when they were born. I was treated with the utmost care when I had a cancerous growth on my neck at 40 years old and they took it all away with great precision and left me almost scar free. All for free .......well, taxes paid!
Recently, I went to Sarasota Memorial Hospital with a blinding headache and the diagnosis after 2 hours was tinnitus. I got a bill for $4600 two weeks later.
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Anyone who knocks the NHS Sota needs to come and live here and live the nightmare of the US health insurance and billing system. A janitor working with Mrs CA needed life saving heart surgery. He has coverage through his job but only up to 90% with no annual cap. His portion of the bill, just shy of $300K.
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It fascinates me how the US healthcare works, mostly because I don't really have a clue about it! Does health insurance cover all hospital visits or are some exempt?
Would you say US healthcare is better because it is all private? As in, quicker diagnosis and treatments, less human error in operations etc
I don't think people realise how much hospital services cost, just because we never see the bill. I read somewhere that just a bed in ICU costs £2000 a night, that's without previous costs of operations, A+E, diagnosis, scans etc. It's astonishing how lucky we are
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Lucky?
For something we pay for via taxation?
Well at least most of us do.
Needs funding more, if it can't then fringe non life threatening treatments need funding taken away
No point in funding fertility courses for example if we can't fully find cancer treatments.
Also we need to stamp out foreign freeloaders.
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Just had an op costing 18k which also covered 4 nights in hospital.
I am now on a physio course which is 8 hrs per day 3 days per week. I get picked up by taxi and dropped off at home in the evening and it includes a 4 course meal.
I haven't a clue how much it costs but I won't get a bill.
In france we pay 7% of 12k pa as a minimum health care cover with the option of a top up insurance. I pay 55€ per month for top up cover.
The physiotherapy clinic was constructed by an insurance company and is charged out by them to people (or their insurance companies) on a daily basis.
I believe that there is room in the NHS to out source this type of medical facility.
Here there are companies who have constructed buildings housing specialist scanners, MRI and x-ray machines etc. I don't have to wait for the hospital to phone me I get a prescription and make my own appointment. I can go to any of these companies.
People on low income = Minimum wage usually get free cover for health. In effect they have a NHS system for thos on low income but there is cut off at a rate based on your salary where you have a choice of taking insurance or not.
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My son has been in Rotherham General Hospital since 07 May 2018 on B4 & B5 medical wards, on the 10 May 2018 he had emergency surgery, after which he was in the Intensive Care Unit until 20 May 2018, then taken next door into the High Dependency Unit, where he still is at the present time receiving treatment.
The operation on the 10 May 2018 saved his life, with the problems he had & has he & us were told by consultants from Rotherham & Northern General hospitals that he should not be here.
He had his gallbladder & stones removed, problems with his liver, bowel disease ( to which they disconnected the bowel at both ends, removed the diseased part of the bowel ) plus a blood clot in one of the 3 main arteries, which he still has.
Plus he has crohns disease, out of the 3 arteries one is clear, 1 has narrowed, & the other one is blocked, he can't have his bowel reconnected until the narrowed artery is operated on by vascular surgery at Northern General hospital, because there is not enough blood pressure to do the bowel.
He is at the moment having problems with his liver, so he has really gone through the mill, with major surgery ahead.
He is in his 15th week in hospital, alive thanks to the NHS care received.
Plus other bad news is that his partner has been diagnosed with gastric stomach cancer, & is at the moment receiving Kemo-therapy treatment at Weston Park hospital Sheffield.
When I looked at the cost of being in hospital, I read over £800 a day in High Dependency Unit, £1600 to £1800 a day in Intensive Care Unit.
But one staff nurse said it was a lot more than this now.
Up to now he has had 3 operations at Rotherham General Hospital since 10 May 2018
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