• MY lovely husband has had major surgery last year at Barts and although they saved his life, he has multiple medical problems since this time.

All of the care and services that we have received from each of the hospitals and from our brilliant GP practice at Adelaide Road have been excellent; apart from one general anaesthetic, which has been followed up by us but the damage has been done, and his memory has been greatly affected.

The biggest challenge for us, as a couple, is to keep track of records and appointments which on a regular basis are not connected. You have to be “on the ball”, to follow everything up yourself and ask questions, checking, checking checking.

None of the different departments seem to connect, everyone being a specialist in their own field but no conductor conducting the orchestra.

We recently discovered that one of the drugs he is taking clashes with bananas, something I had been giving my husband by the boat-load to build him up.

So don’t get me wrong, we have every faith in the NHS and the high standard of medical care we receive but it needs one organisation who centralise the notes and appointments.

Thank you to all the medical staff who have supported us, especially those Philippine health professionals who Boris Johnson wants to get rid of with all the other nationals who do the jobs we don’t want to do.

LINDA GROVE
NW3