“Over the last 12 months or so I have been an inpatient at the MAU at 3 different times. On each occasion the toilets were left dirty with urine, blood and faeces on the seat and floor.
This was mainly caused by patients who were too sick to help themselves, however, it was often many hours before things were cleaned up.
The same situation was the same in some of the other wards as well.
The NDDH must do more to prevent the spread of infection.”

“The nursing staff are brilliant at the hospital...it is not their responsibility to keep the place clean and spotless...that was outsourced years ago and that is the problem!! I expect the government would like to see us all paying for private treatment in private hospitals paying our own health insurances to save themselves more money to pay more pen pushers!!”

“Alexandra Peters comments, don't relate to the Hospital I was treated in on Sunday and Monday. I was given extensive advice on Sunday I received treatment and advice from 6 people , then on Monday while it was busy I received great CARE and went home with my Injury treated in under 24 hours.”

“I suppose we should expect nothing more from a Yelland dweller. He probably couldn't even read the signs above every spirigel dispenser he passed on the way out of the ward.”

“Mr Peters, this issue is with the people coming into the hospital. People DO NOT clean their hands upon entering and leaving the wards. This is essential if we are going to strive for excellence in our hospitals.”

“Ireally cannot agree with MR PETERSmy husband has just come home from the NDDH. care was brilliant ward was clean a basin in there to wash your hands, gel all over the place and his washing was put in a bag ready for me to bring home he was on glossop”

“This headline cannot really come as a surprise to anybody who has visited the NDDH recently.
I had cause to visit a patient on the Fortescue ward last week and as soon as I came out of the stairwell on to the ward the stench of urine and faeces hit me. It was like going back to Victorian times. This place could not have been clean smelling as it did.
There were no obvous places to wash your hands on the ward and so the first opportunity I had was down in the main reception on my way out. This meant I touched several surfaces before being able to wash my hands - another infection risk.
The patient I visited had recently had a colostomy operation and the relative was given a load of really badly soiled clothing to take home to wash! The clothing should have been put in a disposable bag so that it could be placed straight into a washing machine without any contact with the soiling, however this was not the case - which again is an infection risk.
Hospitals all need to clean up their act - I think the kennels in Ilfracombe are kept cleaner than some of the wards in the hospitals.”