Conquest Hospital

Came over two days for bloods, ECG monitor and ultrasound. Departments efficient, friendly and helpful. Fasting blood so early for monitor fitting, they made time for me so I didn't have to wait long. Then arranged different time for me to return monitor at the same time as the ultrasound. All with no fuss,

I arrived to conquest 6.30am after being sent by ambulance from the DGH. The care I got there was excellent. I was discharged by about 8.30am.

Patients sit out the front of the main entrance in the doorways smoking. The area is littered with cigarette ends. Smoking should be banned on hospital grounds completely..... inside and out

The question of having People patients and maybe staff smoking at the front entrance to The Conquest Hospital. I am completely against them all gathering out side the main entrance smoking
1. It is a health hazard to people visiting the hospital going for an appointment or visiting relatives, especially for me and my grandson any smoke affects asthma and though it is out in the open you still have to walk through wafts of it.
2. Children also have to walk through this exposing them to harmful chemicals in the smoke. It is also not good for children to see people smoking.
3. Some of the people out there smoking are in state of clothing really to be seen in a ward or the confines of their homes, not to be seen in public.
4. It's really a bad image for the hospital..

After seeing your post on Facebook, I can totally agree with the majority of comments and feedback.

Every time I have visited the Conquest, there are always people smoking outside with drips on and in pyjamas.

I really can't believe that the staff just stand there and watch. There are so many signs which say "This is a non smoking hospital"

Please sort it out Conquest Hospital!

Having recently given birth at the conquest, it is really horrible walking through the crowd of smokers right outside the doors to get in or out, especially when attending antenatal appointments or bringing baby home for the first time, walking through a crowd of smoke isn't what you expect when going in or out of a hospital

18 months ago I had my son at the conquest, previous to his birth I had to attend weekly antenatal appointments for health reasons and to walk past a large amount of people smoking right by the doors especially hospital patients, I felt this totally unacceptable and disgusting for myself and my young daughter who I occasionally had to bring with me, also a number of times found visitors to the hospital smoking weed which is even more unacceptable! Something serious needs to be done about this situation, it's a hospital not a smoking area!!!!

You always have to walk passed groups of people standing outside the main door smoking.
Nothing worse than seeing patients in the pjs hooked up to drips sitting in wheelchairs outside smoking.
If you have a ban then it should be enforced.

I find it disappointing that the official NHS smoking ban at Conquest Hospital, which covers all of the outside grounds & curtilage, is constantly and openly flouted.
Smoking openly goes on outside the main entrance, where it must be absolutely known to all levels of management that it is taking place, but nothing is done about it and non (& ex) smokers have to run the gauntlet of thoughtless smokers.

I have never seen a smoker asked to stop or leave the grounds.
Even more shockingly, it is the Conquest staff who are some of the worst offenders!

There are several smoking enclaves for staff only, the most obvious being at the staff entrance of
the "Theatre sterile store", where a quick glance regularly reveals several smokers and lOO's if not thousands of discarded cigarette ends and other smoking paraphernalia.
As both a visitor & a service user I have personally witnessed this on dozens of occasions.
Management and professionals cannot be unaware and they should be ashamed that they have .let this continue for many years. When will management properly implement their own policy.

Staff were great, helpful and attentive. They were very friendly and the overall facilities were good, the hospital was clean and the food was good quality however sometimes food offered was limited and little privacy was given, for example, I was not allowed my bed curtain pulled unless I was getting changed and even then staff were eager to open it.