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Review of University College London Hospitals NHS Trust
18 Aug 07, 09:14
Comfortable, but a bit too busy. 
There's as happy medium as to what's good and what's bad when it comes to a hospital. I have to admit that the entire hospital was beyond any expectations I've had (in regards to comfort for both patients and visitors). The reception lounge is pretty laid back and easy going - not too difficult to be able to sit there for a bit and read a paper if you have to.
As a second thought though, I didn't like the fact that when my son was in here for a surgery - it took over 2 hours to be told if we could take him home or not. I can understand it was possibly busy and all - but the Doctor should've made more of a poitn of at least checking up on him to give us the "Okay" to go home. Also, there is a television and telephone thing that's on the bed - which is kind of unnecessary. I can see some patients would rather be in bed, watching television due to their pain and the likes. But, what ever happened to the days where each ward had one television (at best)? It seemed to bring a sense of community amongst those that were there. Just a personal pet peeve/thought. Even though the telephone/television combo seemed interesting for each bed to have - they give you a pound of "viewing pleasure" (I'm not sure of the equivalance to time) - but the problem with my son's was that (at first) it wouldn't play sound..and then it wouldn't accept that we still had a pound left. Either way, it's nice to have it there - but not necessary. I do like the fact that you get your own "private" phoneline - except expect your friends/family to dish out up to 35p per minute to talk to you.
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