So today I have the ICB teams meeting to decide where we go with mum next.
I’m not at all happy with the care homes policies although the staff are lovely their hands are tied by the company restrictions.
The allocated GP to the home ‘works remotely’ and has never visited mum, he also refused to access mums Egress records and told the home staff to do it. He asks the staff what medications she’s on & does not have a clue in her past history.
In the 3 weeks mum has been in the home she has declined rapidly, now no longer walking, refusing food & drinking an issue too. I was told
yesterday she is now also experiencing quite severe bowel bleeding, the doctor will still not attend.
Literally so wound up - absolutely no duty of care and mum is suffering & she shouldn’t be.
Any pointers on what to say this afternoon before I go right off the deep end.
Update:
The gp that attends the care home phoned me as arranged at lunchtime & was mistified at why we are both being told conflicting information from the home. Result = he is going into see mum today as he said it’s not acceptable for her to wait another week.
The ICB meeting at 2pm 🙈 care home failed to join, 45 minutes later after being chased multiple times by the person chairing it they eventually joined by phone as their ‘computer is down’ in those 45 minutes I was able to relay the events of the last couple of days. So it opened with some very strong questioning - a lot of paper rustling from the home & they cut off!
I wasn’t surprised - they have been caught out & the game playing is about to bite them in the ****!!
Seems like they are playing me against the Gp when all the faults, lack of consistency and absolutely no duty of care are theirs.
It’s now rescheduled for tomorrow morning so the game starts again.. …. they have been told further time wasting is not acceptable.
I’m not at all happy with the care homes policies although the staff are lovely their hands are tied by the company restrictions.
The allocated GP to the home ‘works remotely’ and has never visited mum, he also refused to access mums Egress records and told the home staff to do it. He asks the staff what medications she’s on & does not have a clue in her past history.
In the 3 weeks mum has been in the home she has declined rapidly, now no longer walking, refusing food & drinking an issue too. I was told
yesterday she is now also experiencing quite severe bowel bleeding, the doctor will still not attend.
Literally so wound up - absolutely no duty of care and mum is suffering & she shouldn’t be.
Any pointers on what to say this afternoon before I go right off the deep end.
Update:
The gp that attends the care home phoned me as arranged at lunchtime & was mistified at why we are both being told conflicting information from the home. Result = he is going into see mum today as he said it’s not acceptable for her to wait another week.
The ICB meeting at 2pm 🙈 care home failed to join, 45 minutes later after being chased multiple times by the person chairing it they eventually joined by phone as their ‘computer is down’ in those 45 minutes I was able to relay the events of the last couple of days. So it opened with some very strong questioning - a lot of paper rustling from the home & they cut off!
I wasn’t surprised - they have been caught out & the game playing is about to bite them in the ****!!
Seems like they are playing me against the Gp when all the faults, lack of consistency and absolutely no duty of care are theirs.
It’s now rescheduled for tomorrow morning so the game starts again.. …. they have been told further time wasting is not acceptable.
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