Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital — Local services in London

contractions (first-time mother, it seemed to me that I was already in labor) I decided to go to Queens Charlotte Hospital (thinking that it would be better or that at least At least it couldn't be worse than what Sant Marys Hospital was) they looked at me, did a touch and told me that it was 2cm, that I had to go home and to come down when they were every 3 minutes and very painful. I went home... I was in a lot of pain... all night, I didn't sleep, I didn't eat, I was already very tired... the next day, September 28, the contractions started to happen every 3 minutes, I went down again... they looked at me. They told me that it was 3cm... that I had to wait to reach 4cm... I read that I was in a lot of pain and that I couldn't stand it at home, that the pain was already very strong and every 3 minutes (what they told me). which was necessary to go down to the hospital) I told them that I would stay there to dilate up to 4cm. This started around 3:30 pm... I started walking through the hallways... I thought they would look at me after a while to see how many cm I was... it was 5,6,7 pm I asked when they were going to look at me to see if I had reached 4cm, they told me that there was no space/bed in the living room. triage to be able to examine me, that I had to wait... the contractions were stronger, more frequent and more painful... and at 10pm... I was still in the waiting room... at this point I could no longer sit down... I felt a lot of pain and pressure...the hours were passing...I had not slept for more than 35 hours, in a lot of pain...I wanted to pee but I couldn't (the baby was already very low, crushing the bladder) it was already more than 12 pm I started having contractions every two minutes, very painful…. I started screaming from the pain with every contraction, there in the waiting room...no one did anything, no one helped me, no empathy, worse than an animal in a slaughterhouse. Almost unable to walk, I asked if they could see that I couldn't take it anymore. They told me that they were waiting to give me a hand (they never looked at me again, they let me be in labor alone until I was ready to give birth). It was 5am... 14 hours after arriving at the hospital, 14 hours on my feet with unbearable pain, without pain relievers... two days of contractions... without sleeping, without eating... very tired... the pain left me breathless, I felt like I was I fainted with every contraction, and I fell asleep standing up during the minute I didn't have a contraction. I was in labor... with each contraction my cries of pain came in the waiting room... they finally come to tell me "follow me, let's go up." I get on the lift with two other women who are also going to be admitted, I'm the only one in labor in the elevator…. I can't go out because I'm in the middle of contraction, she's waiting for me... I follow her walking to my room. He tells me “make yourself comfortable” “you have the ball here to help dilate” I try to sit up and I can't, and I can't lie down either, I feel a lot of pressure down below and in my tailbone... they ask me if I want an epidural, I beg them yes, no. I am dying of pain, they tell me that I have to wait half an hour, that the anesthetist is not here. She asks me to lie down to see how I am…. As soon as I open my legs he tells me “the baby is here, there's no time” you have to start pushing (directly from the elevator to push with my clothes on) they try to take a route on me, they do it wrong… the vua comes out and the blood comes out of my wrist It started to drip everywhere while I was pushing with the little energy left , I almost give birth on the waiting room from the lift to give birth.. after long...

EDIT: NERVE DAMAGE!!! Please do not choose this hospital for your gynaecology surgery. I had a routine operation performed by Dr Sso and Dr Stley (the consultant was Mr Yabk) years ago and I suffered nerve damage (an extremely rare complication for this type of surgery). I complained the typical symptoms straight away, but was always ignored and patronised by all the doctors I saw during follow up appointments. I made a formal complaint and they lied to me. They said there was no way I could prove that type of damaged (not true), and refused to offer me further investigations nor suggested a neurology appointment. No help at all, and left me in agony. My life ruined...2 years later, I went privately and finally got my diagnosis. Nerve damage that only occurs with surgery! My neurologist was shocked when he found out how I was ignored and lied to by the surgeons, with those clear symptoms! He said it is unacceptable from a medical professional....When I presented the neurologist's letter to the consultant, he made a ridiculous attempt at trying to convince me I must have had this problem before (which is not physically possible, as my neurologist explained). He or his assistant that day even wrote a false statement on my clinic letter, saying I suffered from this pain prior to my surgery!!!! I got them to change that, after requesting another formal investigation. Basically, when they realised I found out what they had been trying to hide from me for years, they tried to blame me for this nerve damage as if I had done this to myself, and implied that my neurologist is not good and that I should see one of their owns (who would have probably given me an incorrect diagnosis to cover them up). In the meantime, I was seeying imperial college urogynaecologists, who are from the same trust. While they also failed to tell me I had nerve damage, they kept saying to me the problem is clearly caused by the surgery and that I should see my surgeons for further investigations..They wanted me to read between the lines...Again, the surgeons were not interested and kept cancelling my appointments. Because of my medical history, they were supposed to check on me every 3 months but due to the repeated cancellations, I ended up seeing them after more than a year and guess what?! My tumour was back! It could have been diagnosed months in advance.. When I complained about the cancellations and mentioned my medical history, the officer sent me the ward manager's reply which said there was nothing she could do.. When I finally managed to see the doctors, they were so embarrassed about this negligence that tried to blame it on their admin staff!!! Don't doctors check if their at-risk patients get seen regularly??? This hospital is a criminal organisation. And should be investigated by the relevant body. Not only they damage you (probably because junior surgeons are left unsupervised), but they do not help you afterwards and do not listen to patients' concerns. And to cover up for their wrong doings, they type lies on clinical letters. I wonder what happened during my surgery, and if something was omitted from their records...If my problem had been addressed at the time, I wouldn't be in this situation now (almost unable to work)....

Worst hospital to give birth at!!! I called the maternity triage at 2 in the morning when my water broke at 41 weeks The midwife on the call asked me to come over to the maternity day assessment unit so we can do some observation and monitor baby's heartbeat. At the hospital I waited three hours for the doctor and the doctor convinced me to stay in the hospital and get the induction started as at 41 weeks the placenta isn't quite working like before and they need to monitor the baby. prioritising the health of my baby i decided to get induced and the nightmare started since 6am till 3pm in the afternoon me and my husband sat in the triage waiting area waiting for a bed space to become available in the Lewis suite ward. During that time I started having some really strong contractions and At 3 they did my CTG and asked me to wait further as there was still no bed space available. When we finally got a bed space my contractions spaced out. Got into Lewis suite at around 4 and my first dose of induction was started at 6 in the evening. It had been over 16 hours of being in pain and tiredness of sitting on the chairs around the hospital. After 3-4 doses of labour inducing medicine my very worst kind of unbearable contractions kicked in at around 3 in the morning and they came together quite quickly. I was having a contraction every 2-3 minute apart and they were so strong that i couldn't sit stand walk or talk through them. I told the midwifes on duty 2-3 times about my contractions being so close by and so unbearable but they did nothing about it. since the time I came into the hospital nobody once checked my cervix or confirmed weather it was my waters that broke or not! Around 7 in the morning when my dose almost ended and my concentration also spaced out. The doctor finally came to see me at 10 and announced since I am sitting without crying in pain or screaming in agony I must not even one centimetre dilated and they will need to put me on oxytocin drip for my contractions to actually start, So I had to wait again to get a room in labour ward, there started my wait again. We finally got the labour room at 6:30 that evening and during that time I stared having contraction again, so we waited for midwifes came around at 8 and when they saw my CTG they were surprised to see that I was having regular contractions "surprise surprise". Both the midwives were really really nice and these 2 were the very first positive thing that happened to me the entirety of my hospital stay. Waiting for the oxytocin drip my contractions were naturally becoming stronger and asked to an epidural, the epidural administration also failed and had to get epidural administered twice and even after second time I think the epidural didn't worked as I was feeling all the pains. I gave birth to my baby girl at 6:30am and right after giving birth to her I almost passed out as I felt I was going to die and turned out I lost around 2 litres of blood and my body being in stress for over 48 hours gave up. I've no idea how I survived the delivery of my baby at this hospital that even after a whole month I am...