"How much of a decline Wishaw Hospital is in"

Since the hospital has opened I have been very fortunate to only have to visit the A&E department on a number of occasions

My latest visit tells me that in future, I will go the extra miles to another hospital in the area.

WG is dirty and facilities limited. Toilets are filthy, floors disgusting, vending machines broken, waiting areas partly shut down.

I know that it’s been mentioned that the NHS is on its knees and to be honest, my visit there last night has opened my eyes to it but I couldn’t believe how bad it has become.

I know it’s not the staff's fault and the one triage nurse I seen in my 9 hours at hospital before ultimately leaving couldn’t have been be nicer, as well as the cleaner who did a quick sweep up every few hours but missed 50% of the rubbish as they seemed to be fighting against an unmanageable task.

The tannoy system regularly announcing that they are sorry for waiting times and it’s not the staff's fault so please respect them, which in my time there 99% of people were respectful.

However the other Tannoy message announces that if you can’t wait any longer to be seen then please tell receptionist on way out, that message tells its own story as the number of people clearly in pain walking out the hospital to go home was frightening, these people will possibly wake up this morning and call an ambulance due to pain which will ultimately stretch that service also.

I think the general manager or the director of the hospital, whatever is their correct title, should hang their head in shame that they have allowed the hospital to decline like this under their management. I mention this because although politics has a lot to do with it and budgets etc, WG is by far not being managed correctly in my eyes and I can’t be the only one thinking this.