Budge shares more about his family’s social care nightmare – part 2

I’m very pleased to welcome back David Price, aka Budge for a follow up on our previous podcast all about the journey he and his wife Gina have had over the last 18 months.

When we talked last time, Gina had been transferred to the OCE, Oxford for her rehabilitation; known to be one of the best places in the UK.

After initially being thrilled to get the place in the unit, and having met the staff, both Budge and Gina were comfortable about her potentially spending the next 6 months there.  Gina began to make very good progress, and quite quickly. She had a lot of different therapy, physio and speech sessions, all helping to get her to a better place.

Sadly, things started to go wrong very quickly. The main problem being that the nursing team didn’t seem to work with the rehab team. They were existing as two separate teams, whereas in fact, they should have been working as one to enable Gina’s rehab.

The rehab team were doing nothing wrong, but some of the nursing assistants were not doing their jobs to the best of their ability, which meant that on occasions, Gina wasn’t washed or dressed, so not ready on time for her rehab sessions. Then there were times her meals were late or even missed.

Worse still there were occasions when Budge found medication on the floor.  As you can imagine, he wasn’t happy and questioned the nurse.

As you’ll be shocked to hear, Budge had to spend a lot of his time fighting to make sure that Gina received the expected care yet often ended up doing it himself – something which should never happen!