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Unusually high admissions to hospital today prompts appeal
5:22pm Saturday 5th January 2013 in News By James Nadal
Unusually high admissions to hospital today prompts appeal
STOKE Mandeville Hospital is experiencing an 'unusually high' number of admissions to its accident and emergency centre today, bosses revealed this evening, as they appealed to patients.
Officials have told patients to consider all other options before going to the hospital, such as pharmacists, NHS Direct and the out of hours GP service.
Sarah Hills, spokesman for Bucks Healthcare, told The Bucks Free Press this evening the authority does not know yet the cause for the rise in admissions but it is working on treating those coming in.
She said it was not possible at this stage to give more precise numbers of admissions either.
But the hospital is appealing for anyone experiencing diarrhoea and vomiting not to go there unless advised to do so by a doctor.
It said in a statement: “We also ask that visitors with diarrhoea and vomiting symptoms do not visit the hospital until they have been symptom free for 48 hours.
“It is important that you call 999 if you are seriously unwell or critically injured.
“We remain fully committed to treating patients who need our services and thank you for your assistance.”
NHS Direct can be called on 0845 4647.
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Comments (32)
5:35pm Sat 5 Jan 13
Lane End Man says...
soon enough you will have to ring to make an appointment at the A&E as they will be covering too large an area to be able to operate properly ( if they already dont )
5:49pm Sat 5 Jan 13
Scarletto says...
SM and Wexham Park A&Es already under great pressure are sometimes being semi-swamped with patients waiting even longer. Ambulance crews from Wycombe areas are also under pressure as ambulances travel much further with 999 patients and are off the road longer therefore.
People being turned away from new minor injuries unit at Wycombe Hospital when their injuries are graded too severe to be treated and then make longish, painful and distressing treks to Slough or Aylesbury.
It's a scandal and involves life or death crisis sometimes.
6:19pm Sat 5 Jan 13
iworld says...
6:49pm Sat 5 Jan 13
samikaur says...
Perhaps they should have prepared for a better action plan to cope with the extra patients! no, wait that is far too sensible!!
7:26pm Sat 5 Jan 13
gotanybiscuits? says...
7:34pm Sat 5 Jan 13
shandee says...
7:39pm Sat 5 Jan 13
shandee says...
9:02pm Sat 5 Jan 13
ivor says...
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Maybe the way to get full A&E facilities restored to Wycombe Hospital is for everyone to go to Stoke Mandeville in flash-mob style and push the broken system over the edge then they would have to re-open Wycombe?
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Have you read Ivor’s blog today? Click on the “BLOGS” link at the top of the page.
10:27pm Sat 5 Jan 13
geoffW says...
All this will do is give Philip Lee and Theresa May ammunition in their quest to build the Super Hospital on the doorstep of their constituencies (Bracknell and Maidenhead) at the expense of everyone else in the region.
10:33pm Sat 5 Jan 13
Dr Truth says...
10:34pm Sat 5 Jan 13
Dr Truth says...
11:22pm Sat 5 Jan 13
Mr Totterdge Hill says...
However gotanybiscuits & samikauir also were bloody close.
I've got 6 outpatients appointments at 3 different hospitals over the next 6 weeks... I just wish I could see one doctor! So much for joined up care!
1:11am Sun 6 Jan 13
Old Rebel says...
4:10am Sun 6 Jan 13
Honey33 says...
5:27am Sun 6 Jan 13
buftonp13 says...
8:14am Sun 6 Jan 13
washondo says...
Psychosomatic illness. Working people only get ill when they are on prolonged holidays. They're normally too busy earning to pay attentionto minor symptoms.
8:30am Sun 6 Jan 13
motco says...
"But the hospital is appealing for anyone experiencing diarrhoea and vomiting not to go there unless advised to do so by a doctor." SMH spokesperson.
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the
patient while nature cures the disease” Voltaire.
In the first case I would say that after 48h with no symptoms you are cured - or dead.
8:31am Sun 6 Jan 13
motco says...
"We also ask that visitors with diarrhoea and vomiting symptoms do not visit the hospital until they have been symptom free for 48 hours." SMH spokesperson.
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the
patient while nature cures the disease” Voltaire.
In the first case I would say that after 48h with no symptoms you are cured - or dead.
9:01am Sun 6 Jan 13
demoness the second says...
9:28am Sun 6 Jan 13
esilvester says...
11:18am Sun 6 Jan 13
Scarletto says...
We used to have an A&E dept in Wycombe and now we've got to go to Stoke M taking extra time, extra pain, extra expense, extra delay, risking life, occupying the ambulance service more etc.
Too many people are doing nothing about the cuts, the worsening service and the risk to lives.
We need perhaps an independent candidate at the next election here to stand up and campaign about our damaged NHS. Our current MP has taken little action and our Labour party has not led any real campaign. Wake up Wycombe!
Sadly, too many people, relatives and friends who have suffered in our wards and departments are too timid to complain in case it means they are targeted by staff as "troublemakers."
1:19pm Sun 6 Jan 13
shandee says...
you obviously live in sm or alesbury and no inclination of what people in wycombe feel.
lets say your sick child was rushed to sm, you found out 30 mins later. now you get in you car and rush to sm, but along the way you get stuck behind a slow moving large vehical, which delays you even more. you finally get to sm to find out you child died 15 mins ago.
1 family in wycombe suffered this exact senario.
you wouldnt know the truth if it jumped up and shat in your eye.
1:25pm Sun 6 Jan 13
shandee says...
2:09pm Sun 6 Jan 13
Scarletto says...
4:35pm Sun 6 Jan 13
geoffW says...
How would YOU like it if YOU rushed YOUR sick child to Stoke Mandeville (from anywhere) and found a flash-mob blocking the roads and crowding out reception and then YOUR child dies because they could get to a doctor in time, but could have been saved if YOU had managed to get through the mob 5 minutes earlier?
Someone you know of in HW died because of this totally ridiculous system, but the fact that you are willing to create a scenario that could be equally dangerous to someone else shows what little intelligence you have.
Neither Dr Truth or I have said that the changes system are correct. If you have read any of my posts over the last few years you will know how against it I am. I have been shouting about the drip, drip closure of Wycombe Hospital for four or five years.
The fact that we support our doctors and nurses who have to work in the whatever stupid system the idiots at the top create does not mean that we support the changes and the closure of A&E in HW.
Maybe you should read what people write carefully before you start shouting your mouth off, Maybe you should think before enciting people to take actions that would cause problems for many genuinely ill people who need help - even if it is the increasingly substandard help that seems to be on offer.
4:41pm Sun 6 Jan 13
totteridge51 says...
4:47pm Sun 6 Jan 13
ashrosie says...
4:50pm Sun 6 Jan 13
ashrosie says...
2:43pm Mon 7 Jan 13
stevet123 says...
As i have said before Ambulances are being tied up with travelling to Stoke manderville and Wexham park, leaving Wycombe vunerable and causing deaths when they can be saved if covered, also if a major accident on the M40 even worse.
Best thing DR Payne can do is help restore A & E at Wycombe.
There again Toriy fans only think about lining there own pockets they do not care about anyone else
2:49pm Mon 7 Jan 13
stevet123 says...
2:31am Wed 9 Jan 13
Aquator says...
Upon scrutiny it could also be argued that such a thing is enshrined with the system of legislator the issuance of which if looked at can be seen to have gone through two significant step changes going back to 1987. If such things are based upon the precautionary principle and it is fully admitted that the cause of these scarcities in terms of public protection facilities, one question we should all be demanding to have answered is as follows:
Where does the precautionary principle apply or why is it entirely neglected when it comes to the now evidenced corruption and criminality embedded within the banking system and City of London (Crown aka HM)?
How is it that through the economic crisis, lives and the protections that should reside at the heart of government can be entirely neglected.
Given that I and those I work with have sought, from numerous offices of the system of administration and government, that they can affirm that they have a duty to protect the lives and well being of the citizens and people of the United Kingdom but as yet none have confirmed such a thing.
These events are in my view not accidental and as such we and our children are rapidly entering a very dangerous and perilous period.
We have trusted this system for too long as it now has quite obviously breached the trust and even its oaths towards our laws and traditions. It is time for a return to those values that are both ancient and essential.
UK Column, The Peoples United Community, The Peoples Public Trust, just a few of many places to go and discover remedies for you and all those you care for.
Thank you for reading
5:06pm Thu 10 Jan 13
Scarletto says...