One of the worst A and E's in the country

So, the Central Lancashire primary care trust has been highlighted by the Healthcare Commission as having a very poor Accident and Emergency department.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/article1735735.ece

And if Royal Preston Hospital is anything to go by, I'm not surprised. The hospital has just completed a new children's only A and E department, which is all well and good, but while this work has been going on a traumatic trip to A and E has been made even more traumatic by having to sit in a pile of rubble whilst waiting to be seen. OK, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but people I have spoken to who have visited recently have been less than impressed by the uncleanliness of the emergency department. There are other problems too - see what some people think of Royal Preston Hospital:

http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/Hospital.aspx?id=RXN02&page=1&v=4

The personal highlight of the hospital feedback for me is from Mr Lister, who visited the hospital last month when the aforementioned work was going on, and said: "It's how I imagine a hospital would be in third world country."

The irony is that the hospital say they have done this building work, which has left the A and E an unclean one, to improve the overall quality of the department. But that still doesn't help those who have had to experience a dirty department in this in between stage. Who, if they haven't caught MSRA, will have even more of a negative view of this country's healthcare system.

Issues surrounding health

Health is one of those topics that is always in the news. Results of medical studies, debates about the NHS, panic over superbugs, and general lectures about how unhealthy we all are all feature in the media. It's a great issue for debate and discussion as it affects us all in one way or another. So to debate and discuss health issues is what I intend to do as part of a module on my course. I'm new to this blogging lark so bear with me!