Royal Blackburn Hospital

My father has advanced Parkinson's. He was admitted last January but he was not given his Parkinson's medication. He went through Royal Blackburn A&E for a suspected stroke and told he would be either admitted onto a ward or discharged if he had not had a stroke. They didn't give him a scan until three days into the stay. None of the nurses knew how to do the morphine pump so my mum came to do it everyday. Part of having Parkinson's for my dad means he has hallucinations but he has learnt to live with it, however because of the hallucinations they tweaked his medication. This has an affect on him and after this he was not the same man as when he went in - he appeared high. It's really dangerous to change Parkinson's medication even the brand, so I don't know why they thought this was a good idea. You can't treat people with Parkinson's like other patients - they need the timing of their medication on an individual basis rather than it being routine at the same time everyday. They gave him purified food as well which he couldn't eat. It was also a one mile walk from the car park to the ward and my mum wasn't happy having to pay for parking when she was doing the morphine pump when she was there.

I only came in yesterday so I can't say much about the quality. I need an operation to remove cancer from my tongue. I have come from Bolton hospital but in Bolton they did not put me on a special diet to build me up, so the consultant here has said that it's doubtful I will wake up from the operation. They have put me on a special diet today in preparation for my operation, probably this weekend. When I was in Bolton they didn't give me medication often enough, but here has been brilliant.

The nurses and consultants are very caring. I waited too long to be admitted onto B24 from A&E. I was led on my back due to a spinal injury and couldn't sit up, so I couldn't eat very well. The sandwiches were passable, fruit was fresh. The parking is better at Blackburn than Burnley.

The nurses and consultants are very caring, one of the porters is not. I was left on a trolley without knowing what was going on. The porter was quite rude about it. It took a while in A & E - half an hour for triage, 1.5 hours for X Ray, an hour for admission to the ward. The chairs were very uncomfortable particularly because I have a spinal injury.

On the Sunday morning I got a phone call at 6.15am. They told me it was bad news. When I got to the hospital she had died. I would have liked to have been with her and been told she was deteriorating. She was asleep so it wouldn't have made any difference but I would have liked to have been informed of her condition.

The consultants were excellent but the nursing staff were not nice. They didn't want to speak to me about my husbands care. The hospital is too big and getting there is a problem - I have to ask friends. The food was terrible - he was supposed to be on a special diet to build him up, but he never got what he had asked for, it was always cold, and it wasn't made in the way the dietitian said it needed to be.

It's been excellent

Excellent

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Reduce waiting times.