SE23.com - The Official Forum for Forest Hill & Honor Oak, London SE23
Online since 2002   11,000+ members   72,000+ posts

Home | SE23 Topics | Businesses & Services | Wider Topics | Offered/Wanted/Lost/Found | About SE23.com | Advertising | Contact | |
 Armstrong & Co Solicitors



Post Reply  Post Topic 
Lewisham hospital v Kings College hospital
Author Message
IWereAbsolutelyFuming


Posts: 531
Joined: Oct 2007
Post: #1
11-03-2008 02:28 PM

Both of ours were due to be delivered at Lewisham, only the second had other ideas. I think the two hospitals are much the same to be honest.

As for our experiences of Lewisham;

  • the hospital antenatal classes were poor (and old fashioned lecture in a hot, overcrowded waiting room);
  • the ante-natal care was good;
  • the delivery was really good (we had a a great midwife called Blessing plus our sis-in-law who is a midwife at Kings just for good measure);
  • the immediate post-natal wasn't good (wife left on drip, stranded in a chair with new baby at 4am and no-one went to check on her until 8am - staff asleep on the main desk in the ward)
  • post-hospital post-natal care, including community midwives, was ok too although we did make use of some of Kings' services as Lewisham didn't make us aware of the equiv. services in Lewisham.

That all sounds a bit negative but overall we had no qualms about going back there for our second baby - we just would have been more prepared to deal with the less than perfect stuff second time round.

Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply

Friends of Blythe Hill Fields


Messages In This Topic
RE: Lewisham hospital v Kings College hospital - IWereAbsolutelyFuming - 11-03-2008 02:28 PM

Possibly Related Topics ...
Topic: Author Replies: Views: Last Post
  7 a side football @ kings college sports ground Mike Bassett 2 4,798 18-10-2016 04:30 PM
Last Post: Davinia
  Lewisham DLR to Lewisham Hospital Walking ForestHillier 4 5,360 25-04-2016 08:44 PM
Last Post: Sherwood
  Lewisham Hospital Choir Top of the Pops! derbybill 1 3,703 26-12-2015 06:05 PM
Last Post: Erekose
  Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E ringingcod 205 171,501 05-07-2015 07:42 PM
Last Post: Perryman
  Lewisham Hospital complaint Snazy 0 3,099 03-07-2015 10:24 PM
Last Post: Snazy