Comments for Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust NDHT

Comment on Patients rate North Devon District Hospital among top in the NHS for care by christine sloper

christine sloper — Fri, 06 May 2011 08:54:31 +0000

I would like to say ahuge thank you to Mr N Treble and his team for their care and support during my surgery yesterday ACL Reconstruction the nursing care afterwards was first class.

chrissi

Comment on Hypoboxes Go ‘Live’ by Diabetes Team

Diabetes Team — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:02:49 +0000

@Sue: Thank you Sue for your feedback, we appreciate your interest and comments. The Diabetes Team has been working on this project in collaboration and with the approval of Pharmacy and Procurement. The content of the hypo box has been chosen for its carbohydrate content, availability and value for money. Although the orange juice carton appears large in the picture it is actually a 200ml picnic size carton which contains the appropriate amount of carbohydrate to treat a hypo. The aim of the hypo box is to ensure that in an emergency appropriate treatment is readily accessible and ready to use immediately. We would always encourage people with diabetes to bring their own preferred hypo treatment (e.g. jelly babies) into hospital and inform their nursing team that they have it with them. However not all admissions are planned. We are auditing the use of the hypo box and will be evaluating its effectiveness. If you would like to discuss this further please contact us.

Comment on Hypoboxes Go ‘Live’ by Sue

Sue — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:50:04 +0000

As an added thought it’s even dafter having a large cartoon of orange juice as all that is needed is 15 carbs to fix a hypo so 250ml at most of orange juice. So the rest has to be dumped unless someone wants to seal the cartoon in the box to leak every where.
Individual cartoon would be a better option if the medic’s really do think fructose is quick acting.
A glass of squash and some glucose powder dumped in it would work a lot quicker and be a lot cheaper.
Glucogen…. that needs to be kept in a fridge or else the shelf life is deminished by at least 8 mths.
Glucogel ….. there are a lot cheaper alternatives available. Try some cake icing in a tube works just as quick and a lot cheaper. Oh and tastes a lot nicer as well.

But then again with the high carb stodgy muck that’s on the menu there wouldn’t be a cat’s chance in hell of anyone going hypo in NDDH.

The money would be better spent on educating patients and staff on diabetes management.

Comment on Hypoboxes Go ‘Live’ by Sue

Sue — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:31:02 +0000

What an odd box 90% of diabetics hate glucogel.
Orange juice has been proven not to have a quick response for rising blood sugars.

How about a pkt of jelly babies instead?

Comment on YouTube maternity unit tour improves access to information for North Devon’s parents-to-be by anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:22:09 +0000

This really reassured me about what a hospital birth might be like – as someone who really doesn’t like the thought of hospital, this video shows how welcoming and supportive the team at Barnstaple are – and answers questions you didn’t know you needed to ask!
An excellent idea.

Comment on YouTube maternity unit tour improves access to information for North Devon’s parents-to-be by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:56:32 +0000

As someone moving to the area and likely to have my second child at this hospital in a few months time I was thrilled to find this online tour! It’s extremely informative and has answered all the questions I had about the unit.

Comment on YouTube maternity unit tour improves access to information for North Devon’s parents-to-be by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:25:44 +0000

Good informative tour & information given.

Comment on New phone system at NDDH by James

James — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:06:45 +0000

@Suzie Sinden: Many thanks for taking the time to give us your feedback – it is really important so we can improve the system. As with any voice recognition software, there will be times when it doesn’t ‘hear’ properly and we are working on the issue with EBME. We check the failures 5 times a week and have fed your comment back to the software supplier to make adjustments to we improve the way calls are answered and directed.

Comment on New phone system at NDDH by Suzie Sinden

Suzie Sinden — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:06:58 +0000

I went through this procedure 3 days ago asking for EBME and got Andrew Kingley direct at Infection control.
How with the wildest imagination could the 2 be confused!?

Comment on Woman makes birthday gift to North Devon District Hospital by Holly

Holly — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:50:01 +0000

How sweet