Kings college CF unit funding or lack of it

I want to write another post on the NHS and the lack of funding CF units and cf patients as individuals receive. Or do not receive as the general theme seems to show.

I receive good treatment from the CF adult unit in Kings college but due to lack of funding/help from government and NHS they are still a long way off from being able to provide the 100% care they are trying to supply and its not through lack of effort from the doctors physios and nurses that work there.

The reasons being.
The unit has been open for 3 years. Personnel have improved massively through training and weeding out poor performers and hiring people who put 110% in to their jobs.
But the unit itself Facilities and rooms have not changed one bit.
All of us patients on that ward have to share bathrooms and washroom facilities. This is a massive risk to our health and wellbeing.

And we have all had a moan about it trust me on that one and i will admit im probably too honest about it but what price or care do you put on your own life and health

Why you may ask am I moaning about the lack of change and shared facilities?

 Its simple CROSS INFECTION. When on ward we are all kept in seperate rooms and asked not to mix with one another due to each individual suffering from different infections and mixing could mean we cath one another bugs and it turns into a nightmare and could cause serious damage to our health or worse.

Unfortunately cross infection is sort of unavoidable at present as we all share bathroom facilities and its very easy to cross infect and frustrating for the team when they have to treat us due to this happening

Now I hear you ask well why dont you all have bathrooms in your own ward rooms and stay compeltely seperated whilst receiving hospital treatment?

Again ask the NHS?

They wont provide funding to improve the ward and no one is told the truth why other than the hospital doesnt have the money waste on it.

The ward staff and cf team have had to raise the money themselves over the past 3 years so that they can pay for the rooms to be refurbed to include ensuite bathrooms which in turn will pretty much stop us from sharing facilities. Great for us and the cf team but embarrassing and ignorant for the NHS. Again we are not the only area that suffers from this many wards have to do the same across the country.

This year though im told enough money has been raised and donated to carry out the work and thats great for all the patients and staff that attend and work there.

No to my individual care and funding moan which I will write in my next blog