Queens Medical Centre
QUEENS MEDICAL CENTRE: Helipad facility
Note: These three pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
NOTES: Perhaps surprising in this day and age, considering the size of the city, the main hospital in hospital in Nottingham does not have a helipad. Plans to build one, over a car park, were put on hold until 2022. So who knows if this will ever be built?
For many years Air Ambulance helicopters have been landing on the nearby University of Nottingham Highfields Playing Fields, which obviously incurs a serious delay within the 'golden hour' when patients with very serious injuries can be often expected to survive.
Learning this I had expected to see a helipad marked out, but I can see no sign of this. (See pictures). This said, looking at the general site picture it is quite clear that a closer helipad could easily be laid-out within the hospital grounds, especially on the east side. Clearly patients arriving by Air Ambulance are given a fairly low priority at this hospital.
MAY I BANG ON A BIT, PLEASE
(It is of course my web-site)
Should we be surprised? Probably not. As has been proven in so many cases in recent years, senior hospital management teams, (and it has long been the case although Queens Medical Centre is far from the worse), as I can testify. So often patient care comes way down on the list of their priorities. For a case in point I once delivered a full load of brand new office furniture to a hospital in which all the offices had been refurbished. As the porters told me, patients are dying here for lack of equipment. And, the hospital was closing in six months!
Of course, these are exceptional cases, but it does beg the question that if our NHS was being properly managed, as our politicians so often claim - how is it that such utter scum can get these top jobs? And how was it, in the case I discovered, that nobody in the top team were prosecuted on charges of Corporate Manslaughter? We do not live in a fair and just society.
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