Using Hospital

[MikeS]

If you are unlucky you enough to have a non-life threatening injury and go to A&E at Scarborough hospital. Here’swhat to expect.
You will be triaged fairly quickly and then told to wait in the outer waiting room. Eventually you will be seen by a nurse and maybe have some basic tests. You will then be told to wait in the inner waiting room. The waiting time is likely to be several hours (6 in our case). You will eventually be seen by a doctor and decisions made.
However it is important to know that the air conditioning in the hospital is turned up high - my estimate 17 deg. So if you have just been enjoying 27 deg on the beach before the accident make sure you take some warm clothes to A&E or you will get very cold. There is no food or drink to buy in the waiting area.

[Chris Runciman]

Earlier this year my wife woke up blind in one eye! She had had laser treatment a few years ago…..!
No car so rang around, the Beasleys immediately offered a ride to the hospital. There by 10.00
There she was assessed and we sat and waited, a busy waiting room but patients were seen in order of priority . About an hour later she saw the optical team, then waited in another corridor, ‘next!’ . In to see a laser surgeon. “I’ll do it now”……He performed the laser treatment then invited me in to see how it was done and I saw through the laser equipment and he gave me a lecture on his work. He trained at Morefields in London.
All done , a letter to show the people in Surrey and out to meet up with the Beasleys who taken the opportunity to pop into Pennysaver . Then back to Castara by 3.30!
Tobago has National Health , as do we, overworked and very busy , very professional and you get the best treatment they have! A big thankyou to the Beasleys!

[PaulMakin]

Seconded.

Never needed the facilities myself but i know people who have, both emergency and longer term treatments, and they give good reports

[Steve Wooler]

Hi Chris

Glad that worked out so well. For the benefit of other readers, I would mention our own experiences in 2017 (forum link viewtopic.php?p=45982#p45982) after Jill's knee gave way during a visit. The hospital staff were fantastic.


Steve

[Kurt.Halfyard]

When we were in Tobago in 2014, my father (who was 73 at the time) had a major Prostate issue. He spent 3 days in the very recently opened new hospital, and got superb care, service, and at zero cost beyond a few pharma-purchases. We were very pleased with the degree of health care that we were provided at no cost as foreign nationals.