Letter from Gerry Taylor (From Swindon Advertiser)

Letter from Gerry Taylor

11:15am Wednesday 17th March 2010 in

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IN RESPONSE to your request for other people to get in touch with you following the article in today’s Adver (March 16) about the 62-year-old lady who has just spent four weeks in the GWH and was delighted with the service that she received.

Three weeks ago, on a Sunday, I was admitted to the GWH after a suspected heart attack. While in the A&E department I had an unstable ECG and was whisked off to the CCU at the BRI in Bristol at 1am on the Monday morning arriving there at 1.35am. I was monitored and at 8.30am taken to the operating area. At 9am I was taken into the operating theatre to have two stents inserted into one of my arteries. The operation took two and a half hours and at 11.30am I left the operating theatre. At 1pm I was returned to the CCU in the GWH for recovery and observation. I was discharged on the evening of the Wednesday, three days after my initial admittance.

I have nothing but praise and thanks for the efficient treatment I received from all the departments who dealt with me.

Like your lady, I was pleasantly surprised at both the standard and the variety of the food while in the GWH.

This is not the first time that I have received excellent service from the GWH and prior to that the PMH.

The NHS may at times seem to be a bit slow when dealing with ‘general’ health problems but when it matters the NHS certainly pull all the stops out.

GERRY TAYLOR

Newcastle Street

Swindon