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How are the Trust going to cope with the additional patients from the closure of the wards at the Woodlands on the Queen Mary's site , and are the vacated wards going to be utilised , can you please explain what your course of action is going to be.

First of all I rang the Shrewsburys Ward in the Oxley clinic Woolwich, to speak to a relative that was an inpatient there. After having been put to speak to my relative, our phone conversation was being listened in on by the staff. Just to let the public know what to expect when they call to speak to family. Because of that I decided to go visit, because it does not seem right for staff to be listening on patient phone conversation.
Then I went to visit, I find the staff rude and the ward really dirty and unkept. I can understand it is a mental hospital but the staff seem to not care at all. I just get the feeling that the staff there just could not be bothered. They were just there to get paid, I think someone from the NHS should look into this. Because, the place looks like an accident waiting to happen and I think for a place with little or no furniture and you hardly see any patient. Because, they had to go call my relative out from the room. That ward sure look dirty and smell really bad.

My son is a 14 yr old with severe physical disabilities and receives continence pads (Abri Form premium S4) via the Continence Service delivered by Mediquip. We haven't had any deliveries for some time and are now have only one packet left. When ringing Mediquip earlier in the week - they assured me that delivery would be today. Today I rang to be told they have no stock of this brand and have no idea when they will. They didn't seem to have/want to access my sons records so I have no idea when our delivery should be/ how many deliveries we have missed. No one either from Mediquip, or the Continence service have let us know of this problem, as a conequnce we have approximately 4 days worth of pads left and no way of getting any new ones soon, with Bank Holiday looming.

I would appreciate someone contacting me as soon as possible with any information that could be of help for us. We should have been informed of this problem before it became a real cause for concern.There should be procedures in place to inform parents/carers/clients of these sorts of problems and steps should be made to combat them?