This is a place where we share your stories of the NHS in Hammersmith and Fulham.
One of the notable features of the covid pandemic so far has been the growth of pressure on people’s mental health, showing up the gaps in provision not just now but from before the start of the pandemic. But the contribution below shows that there is still good work going on in the mental health field and this needs to be developed as the pandemic recedes.
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Emergency care at Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals
“In January 2019 I was taken by a promptly-arriving ambulance to Charing Cross A&E with chest pains, assessed and stabilised, then taken to the Cardiac Unit at the Hammersmith, where I was fitted with a pacemaker. read more...
District Nurse Visits
“I am 71 and housebound with arthritis. I have leg ulcers, and have twice requested house calls from my GP practice. Both times a doctor came the next day, and then I was referred to the read more...
FROM A DOCTOR FRIEND IN WEST MIDLANDS:
I’ve just finished a shift and heard the news and I’m fuming. Are you SERIOUS?? Is Matt Hancock seriously still talking about the amazing hard work (“herculean effort” in his words) the government are doing to read more...
LONDON RAINBOW INITIATIVE
This is a request from the son of one of our long-standing supporters who told us that just this last week they were able to get four ready-to-use phones into the hands of a doctor who read more...
THE DISTRESS CAUSED BY DOMINIC CUMMINGS’ DASH NORTH
This letter from one of our supporters shows clearly and sadly just how disturbing this incident has been. Dear HAFSON, I wanted to bring the below to the attention of HAFSON. I don’t have my original read more...
WHEN I WON A GLOBAL HEALTHCARE LOTTERY by Savraj K
In 2013, a doctor told me I had reaped the fruits of a postcode lottery. My prize was awake brain surgery at a top London hospital, by no less than a world-leading neurosurgeon. My path to read more...
The Digital Divide by Shafia Begam
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began earlier in the year digital contact between patients, NHS services and in particular GP surgeries have very much increased. Digital is not wholly new. We make appointments online or by phone. read more...
Covid-19 and my mental health
I suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and this article describes the challenges I faced during the first lockdown when the mental services I use shut their doors. Mundane tasks such as getting the shopping or going for read more...
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