Of course the facilities and care from the staff is without question…read more However one thing they may want to review, is the updating of the patient as to what their individual care plan is, and when it is amended bring them up to date. Having recently been in A&E on a trolley for 16 hours and then a further 7 hours on a ward, the prospect of discharge changed on more than four occassions despite every observation being satizfactory. Again my point is not the standard of care it is the lack of communication.

Causeway Hospital is a brilliant place to both work and be a patient. The staff are very attentive…read morein all they do. We have got bad press recently but I don't think it is deserved. The government are placing demands on all the Trusts and the staff are trying meet these demands on a daily basis as well as care for those who are ill. They are doing the best they can using the resources they have available to them and with Mr McGimpsey wanting to make savings all the time this is very difficult!

Today I visited the minor injuries unit at Bangor Hospital as I have had an extremely sore elbow…read morefor a few weeks. I really don't like hospitals and only went because I was in agony! I arrived at the hospital at about 4pm, went to the reception and the lady there took my details and told me to wait in the waiting area. There were only a few people about and only one other couple in the waiting area. I found myself reading the notices around the walls while I was waiting. The waiting room was clean and there was a few toys in the corner for kids. After about 20 minutes and just after the other lady was called a nurse called my name and I followed her into the cubicle in the treatment area. I got my examination and a diagnosis of my injury and that was me, all within less than an hour. Painless- hopefully my arm will be too soon!!! As the name suggests this hospital is able to treat minor injuries and has the ability to X-Ray but more serious conditions should go straight to emergency dept. at Ulster Hospital Dundonald.

Dealing with nursing staff is always rewarding and they do their very best in adversity but they…read moreare continually underpaid and undermined by a vicious senior management team that routinely deceive, and a political class who have abandoned the service and gaslight electors. It's obvious too just looking around the unit we were in that the deadly cutbacks are incredibly savage. As we left in the lift from level 9 an elderly lady, barely able to stand got in at level 5. She had a small carry case and a walking stick. She was tearful telling us that she had been kept in, prepared for surgery and shortly before she was to be operated on it was pulled as they 'needed a specialist'. Apart from the obvious questions and sheer waste of a scarce valuable resource how could this be allowed to happen to vunerable people but it's a story we hear all too often. She had no idea when she will be called back so she'll have to continue to live in acute pain seemingly until the 12th of never.

Ok so probably weird me doing a review of a hospital but I have been here for a few days and I just…read morehad to say how amazing the staff who work here are!! So helpful and friendly and cannot do enough for you. I would obviously not go out of my way to be here but I'm glad I'm at this hospital out of them all. The food leaves a little to be desired lol But I recommend the jelly and ice cream ;) haha

Update on how this hospital is a joke. 2023 and they seem to be going backwards. Nurses crying…read moreAbout being run off their feet. Well that's a lie. I never seen anyone of them even walking at a fast pace. Doctors with big egos who know it all yet diagnose you wrong about 3 times before sending you to a better hospital for proper care. People awaiting around is hallways on beds for days on end with nothing being done whilst the doctors appear to be working part time. Bloody joke. The minister for health would want to get his finger out of his ass and sort this out. Its bad management from the top down and its gone on too long now. Doctors should also be held accountable for misdiagnosing patients. If i could give them zero stars i would. Useless service

This hospital is an absolute disgrace of major attitude from nurses and ER. I was a gay married…read moreman who's husband was in this hospital from quite sometime and they simply ignored him whenever he wanted something and wanted to ask them a question. He even yelled out to help him but the continued to ignore him. It was mid week he had to go down to Galway to get his 4th stent put in. He passed away that morning because they couldn't get him down to Galway on time. He didn't make it to the table. Its ashame that they treated him very poorly and as 3rd class because he wasn't from Ireland. I do not recommend this hospital.

I had a very bad throut and the stuff they gave me is amazing but had to wait 4 hours for a 30ml…read morespray

They looked after my daughter a number of years ago and they where excellent! The staff not just…read morelooked after my child but me and my wife, loads of parking availible and there is a garage and a few food places 2 mins walk away l, only issue if the hospital would need a Wee but if an update as starting to show its age!

The mobile breast screening unit is situated in the grounds of Ards hospital .This is for the…read morepurpose of all women over the age of 50 to be invited to attend the unit for breast screening every three years. This screening is called a mammogram which is a special X-ray which can spot cancers that are too small to see or feel. The whole procedure involves an opportunity to ask any relevant questions and then to have each breast X-rayed. The whole procedure takes less than half an hour and the mammogram itself will only take a few minutes. The X-rays will be reviewed by a specialist and the results will be sent to your home and your doctor in about two weeks. So ladies if you haven't availed yourself of this service don't be afraid, that half an hour could literally save your life.

Ards Hospital will always go down in history, there will come a time when tourists will flock there…read moreto honour the birthplace of a literary great. That is because Ards hospital is responsible for delivering wee baby me around 23 years ago. Unfortunately they no longer offer midwifery, some say they reached the pinnacle around 23 years ago but others argue that government budget cuts encouraged the closure of this centre. I believe the former. Ards Hospital really is a shadow of its former self, but it still plays an important role in the community. They offer a walk in service Monday to Friday and if I was to have a minor injury I would bypass Hospitals that are closer to my home in order to go to Ards hospital. Day care, Outpatients facilities and minor operations are also preformed at Ards Hospital. Ards Hospital has always been extremely sympathetic to its patients needs. It has the feeling of a Family GP practice rather than a city hospital. The building itself has the same personality as the staff, wise and open with a whole lot of knowledge to share. It was once a Victorian workhouse but there is no need to worry about being served gruel at Ards today as they offer full catering department equipped with an affordable café for patients and visitors. All in all I would commend this hospital for its character and approach to care.

New hospital for the South West region of Northern Ireland, opened in June 2012 and provides state…read moreof the art facilities to provide for the needs of the community for the future.

I had occasion to go to this NHS hospital yesterday to accompany someone else who needs weekly…read moretreatment to alleviate excruciating pain from a long-term disorder. When I attend the NHS now, two things hit my mind instantly, what would we do without this fabulous institution and why are the nursing & ancillary staff paid so very little for the life-enhancing work that they do daily. For those who think it socialism it's not; at its simplest level it's a sensible economic and societal policy to have a fit, healthy workforce and society. No one asks you for a credit card when you need treatment or what your worth. Introducing profit to medicine will instantly go to what should always be protected - the fundamental trust at the heart of the relationship between doctor and patient - and destroy it. Only a few months ago our nurses had to take to the streets just to get a paltry pay rise promised yet unpaid by politicians for years. Today, with Covid 19, these wonderful human beings put their lives on the line day and daily with a smile. Wow. Those politicians, who voted down their long overdue, paltry pay rise just a few months ago, now heap them with praise. They have the temerity, and the gall, to praise and to applaud them on Thursday nights as has become our way to say thank you to the best of us, yet many of these rancid hypocrites voted not to increase their pay. In fact one UK prime minister believed there was no such thing as society. The outworking of Covid 19 disproves this for the palpable nonsense it was. Most emetic of all is that these politicians enjoy considerable pay increases year on year. Of course, they rig it by appointing a panel of 'safe hands' actually interdependent, not independent people - and they say their pay & pension increases are decided independently, but they neglect to say that they can always say no, which isn't a word they have ever used when grabbing as much dosh as they can get their ferociously greedy mitts on. They neglect to say that when these 'interdependent' bodies also recommended pay increases for low paid public sector employees the same MP's did say no. And back to Covid 19 and a health service that was already wilfully starved of resources and intentionally driven to its knees by politicians - the staff can't get testing nor adequate protective clothing yet early on in the crisis the politicians awarded themselves £10,000 each to assist their having to work from home. There's about 650 of the greedy bastards. It takes no time ever, no matter what the event, for our self - serving political class to whet their insatiable greed for our money. The world is not enough for these people. So let's hope, as we come out of this, that they applaud less and pay more to the best of us and put themselves last just once. For the first time.