Mill View Hospital

My partner was on a section 2 picu in pavilion ward they helped my partner and supported him but night staff arent nice. Sometimes staff has to run and hide from him.
Feb 28th, 2023

Under a Section 136, I was treated well and discharged to Community care. No complaints from my time at the safe haven. I'm greatful I chose to stay alive! If your thinking about death it only hurts others and in the long run things do and will get better, make good choices, get into action and ask how can I get recovered rather than demanding the impossible.
Sep 21st, 2022

Janet Muller escaped 2 times in one day from this facility. The second time she was found dead!!! Lousy security if anyone at all!!
Aug 21st, 2022

Disgusting
Jun 26th, 2022

I worked in the 2 hospitals before & at Mill View. I loved helping patients but standards of care kept worsening. Most nurses (not all) mainly stayed in the office, were burnt out or indifferent. It got worse as new nurses lacked skills, objectivity & empathy. Most didn't engage with patients - if you build a rapport patients are more co-operative. Nurses did not give objective care. Inept agency workers who have no knowledge of patient care adds to the problem. Medication was mixed up when prepared before being given. Carers did most work & gave more attention Mill View is an advanced building built to minimize risk, however management decisions were often terrible. At the time I worked one of the managers compulsively slept with various nurses, one senior nurse spent most of the day playing video games & an old female charge nurse (trained late in life & often mocked for her absurdity) once dismissed a young male as having teenage syndrome, he killed himself soon after discharge. She also said that a self inflicted injury of a troubled young man should not be treated, she was angry when I got a nurse with more integrity to attend to it. I once visited Caburn Ward (before it became a part of Mill View) to find her playing cards with all other staff, leaving the patients totally unattended. She was sent to the Ward I used to work on but is now back; she was a bully to kind hardworking staff afraid of her & lenient to lazy sycophants, this ethic drips down & demotivates. Consultants make hasty decisions about discharge after seeing a patient once a week for under an hour from the scant guidance of nurses who had just been briefed about them. Some patients even hung themselves while on (sometimes constant) observation levels poorly attended. I threatened to report a junior nurse who treated a vulnerable young patient with learning difficulties with ongoing punitive spite to deter her, as a result I was told to remember my place. I lost my enthusiasm that such behaviour was normalised (when the patient acted inappropriately she complied in going to her room). I lost faith in the system, I took some time off & tried to return, but I had become disenchanted & left. There was once a hurried training sessle patients due to a huge NDA payoff, staff at the elderly hospital had dropped a patient as they didn't know how to operate equipment properly. Ward doors can be locked & easily opened by a button in the nursing station. Patients can be escorted to the garden for short periods. There is little accountability of those in positions of power & the ratio of management positions to nurses is high. Investigations are really just superficial PR, "lessons will be learned" is the usual mantra but nothing of substance happens. Making a fence higher is pointless (this was first suggested around 20 years ago) when a patient can simply walk off the ward unnoticed. It is the desultory atmosphere of detached disregard of patient care for attentive, engaged caring & trust that requires radical change. NB I did work with some very admirable staff, most have since moved. One junior doctor covers all wards & other rehabilitation units with great dedication, the same situation creates problems in A&E in the general hospital. Diagnosis are given without careful attention. One of many stories; an unkempt man with learning disabilities was given the status of Schizo-effective disorder. I observed him eating shoe polish & undiluted coffee granules, he had skinny limbs but a hard distended abdomen. I wondered if he was trying to vomit, his digestive system to be screened & it was completely compacted. He was given several enamas which blocked the sluice, this was the cause of his psychosis & med;s added to his discomfort. This was not the only wrong diagnosis. My first day was on the locked ward, there were only 3 of us as staff had gone sick. A patient became distressed by voices & had to be restrained. Their was no training until I pushed for it for the safety of staff & patients. People would be horrified by the stories I know.
Mar 30th, 2023