Les's story in Hospital and prior with his GP

Les was diagnosed with shingles by his GP, he didn't think that was the right diagnosis as he had no rashes, skin irritations or spots and his symptoms were similar to when he had plurecy many years ago.
Les went back to his doctors many times about this and the GP said that his chest X-Ray came back as no further action needed and was told it was normal. His GP again said that he had shingles
He went to his GP again with the same symptoms and this GP requested another Chest X-Ray, and when that came back the GP said "you have a chest infection"
Half way through his antibiotics that his GP prescribed, he needed to go in to Hospital with lower back pain which he couldn't move into bed because of it
The Hospital diagnosed pneumonia after a chest X-Ray, and said that his other medications were affecting his antibiotics and the antibiotics were affecting his other medication in serious way also, and they took him off some tablets because of this
Les improved in Hospital whilst in ICU and then Beach ward in relation to his beathing and his oxygen level had been reduced by the filter cap on the nose piece many times that he was nearly off oxygen and they had took him off the urine catheter after having checked his fluid input/output (Note: Les was always able to go the toilet himself, but was told it was necessary to put the catheter in for the time being), but after that when moved on to cardiac-respiratory ward (he was moved because two patients were fighting and Les became very anxious and was told he should move ward, which Les didn't really want to move, though he was moved due to that), things were not right for Les on this ward and the lack of care that Les suffered was appalling, being worst on weekends and Bank Holidays, and tests where not done as requested by a vascular consultant and blood tests and sputum were not done either and when les complained about the sputum samples not being done he was eventually given a jar to do it in, and he give it to a nurse and then I saw it at the back of his bed and some medical staff witnessed that as well. Les complained to the ward matron about this and she gave him another jar, but all this time, nearly three weeks in hospital no sputum sample had been put to the lab. for culturing to see what infection was causing the pneumonia and possible blood poisoning as a result of not being diagnosed sooner and lack of the correct medication in relation to the type of pneumonia infection, I.e virural, bacterial, fungal or parasitic which they hadn't checked, through his pneumonia had not cleared and so the hospital are required to do further tests to check the actual sample by culturing it which didn't happen








We are saddened about the health care treatment of Les, which led to his untimely death and so didn't get precious time prior to his death and are devastated by it all. Love to you Les, you will always be in our hearts for ever more! xxxx