hospital gave me gastroenteritis

ash_scotland88

ash_scotland88

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I was admitted to hospital Tuesday night and discharged Wednesday evening.
I was discharged not being able to keep down water.
Fast forward to today and on the phone to nhs24 for an out of hours GP appointment. He diagnosed my pancreas problems and booked me into a&e in view of getting into a medical ward, still unable to keep water down and with bad abdominal pains.
Doctors there diagnosed it as something I picked up in hospital, more or less his words. 6hours and two drips I was out again.

The hospital is PPI place run by Consort who's previously been fined and complained at before due to the cleanliness they've kept it.

I'm not looking for an ethics debate but do I have a case for some form of negligence? Would it be the NHS or the private company that owns and runs the hospital? I know we have some guys on here that deal with some of this stuff in hospitals.

I only have quarels with the private company knowing what they are like.
 
I fail to see how you can proove the hospital gave you sickness...

Want to complain then ring the hospital and ask for PALS otherwise stop looking for an easy buck.
 
How long where you in hospital the first time? Gastroenteritis can take days to present, so it could have been something you brought in. You would only have a case if there was an outbreak on the unit and it was proven the ward/unit had given you it.
 
How ungrateful....someone gives you something and you moan about it....

Seriously though, although you may have issue with the PPI, it will be the NHS that has to defend any negligence case you try to bring and the costs associated with that win or lose.

Besides peope get stomach bugs all the time, including gastroenteritis, you could have picked up te norovirus or bacteria anywhere, what was you admitted for to begin with and when did you have symptoms of gastro-enteritis?
 
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Stop posting with your gastroenteritis infected keyboard, we could all catch it :eek: :mad:

Put brackets around your words, like [this]
that'll contain any infected ASCII



*not real medical advice*
 
Castiel said:
How ungrateful....someone gives you something and you moan about it....

Seriously though, although you may ave issue with the PPI, it will be the NHS that has to defend any negligence case you try to bring and the costs associated with that win or lose.
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that's what I wanted to know. If it was the ppi I might have tried to move forward with it.
Ach well, thinking about a letter complaining to Nicole Sturgeon, but no doubt not doing it.
 
Infection is almost a lottery. I have a friend currently in hospital for the 5th week (lost 2 stones during that time), 3 operations, tubes in and out of every place you can think of and recently caught a nasty infection.

Even Lord Denning once famously said that "Hospital are dangerous places". (I think it was Lord Denning)
 
ash_scotland88 said:
that's what I wanted to know. If it was the ppi I might have tried to move forward with it.
Ach well, thinking about a letter complaining to Nicole Sturgeon, but no doubt not doing it.
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Make a formal complaint to the hospital, they will be able to advise you on the procedures you need to follow.
 
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If you lodge a complaint it will be investigated, if you were the sole case on the ward it will be put down to you catching elsewhere.

If there is a larger number of people with the same infection, it will be taken further. Although the hospital will already know if this is the case already.
 
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Well that's a hefty one to prove:

a) meets incubation period
b) you can demonstrate it is a specific strain found in that hospital and not in the community

Good luck ...
 
there is a difference between a complaint and alleged professional negligence with respect to the processes involved in dealing with them in the hospital. i can tell you know you haven't a mission trying to prove you caught gastro whilst in the hospital.
 
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