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The hospital management finally backed down and our children are staying in ward 4B. The bureaucrats tried to disrupt these families without even asking us but 538 people stood up and forced them to retreat. We will stay vigilant to ensure no one tries to pull this kind of reckless …

March 5, 2014

Keep all the GI kids in ward 4B in Yorkhill

Keep all the GI kids in ward 4B in Yorkhill

🏆 Won — 536 supporters Verified

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Annette e.
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Claire H.
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Lorraine S.
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Started by Anonymous 12 years, 9 months ago
Please take the time to sign our petition on behalf of all the GI Kids to keep them in their ward. Yes they are a small group of children but they have very complex needs and most of them survive on TPN which is artificial nutrition that is fed in through a central venous line into their hearts, some have gastrostomy which is a stomach drain, also used to administer medicines and feeds as well as different ostomies. Our children have been in this ward for many years and one of them for almost 13 years apart from a time when all our children were in ward 6b but on a Monday we were told that ward was closing on a Friday so they were moved back to 4b. So once again our children and parents have been looked after by trained staff and have relationships with them all but for some reason it has been decided to move them again out of the ward these kids know as there second home. We know the nurses in the other ward will learn to care for them and do an excellent job looking after the children they have but we feel it is not right to move us again especially without talking to any families about this move, it is only a few years till they move again to the new Children's Hospital so surely we deserve the right to be heard . Many of our children have a life limiting diseases and we parents want what's best for them and our kids definitely deserve to be listened to.



Updates

December 11, 2013

Five hundred people have joined us in demanding the hospital stop treating these children like cargo. The administration thinks they can shuffle our kids around in the dark but this surge proves we are watching their every move.

Reached 500 supporters

December 9, 2013

Reached 100 supporters

December 5, 2013

154 Comments

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lee craigon
12 years ago Featured

This is awful news. . my nephew is in and out of ward 4b and v this wld affect him terribly living worth his condition and having a Central line is hard enough plse don't make his 2nd home less inviting and safe for him

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Lynne Burns
12 years ago Featured

Having spent months in Yorkhill with my son I know how important it is to have staff continuity, not just for the ongoing medical care of the children but for the relationships that are built over time. These children deserve the best possible care which includes stability of surroundings and familiar faces

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Marc Ollerenshaw
12 years ago Featured

my son attends this ward once every three weeks, not including the emergency admissions. we have grown a great relationship with the staff and more importantly Harley trusts them and knows them and he's only 20months.

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Lesley
12 years ago Featured

My Robbie has became very fond of the staff and ward 4b, this has taken hi. Over 2 years to finally put his trust in nurses and to move him would only bring back his anxiety to hospital x

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Jo Rolling
12 years ago Featured

This will be an awful stressor on severely ill children, their Stressed parents who should be treated as partners in their care and the new nurses taking over their care clinical incident will occur.

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eileen bain
12 years ago Featured

this is on behalf of a very special young man i know Samuel Bell who has been treated here since he was born as was his baby sister they do a fantastic job and i would like to show my appreciation to them we need this ward kept open here on this side of Glasgow

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Alison Downs
12 years ago

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Carlos L. Bell
12 years ago

not disrupting a patients routine more then neccessary benifits the patient