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tenerifechris
30-09-2011, 22:23
How good are the state hospitals in Tenerife, if someone is diagnosed with a tumour which needs urgent surgery? Just wondering and trying to compare Tenerife hospitals with NHS in England.

slodgedad
30-09-2011, 22:30
I can't comment about tumours but my wife had a major stroke in January and is still being treated on the 'social'.

Her treatment, including after care and physio has been exemplary, I can't thank them enough.

I don't believe it would have been better anywhere else in the world.

cainaries
30-09-2011, 22:36
How good are the state hospitals in Tenerife, if someone is diagnosed with a tumour which needs urgent surgery? Just wondering and trying to compare Tenerife hospitals with NHS in England.

I can't answer your question but would like to ask 'where in England'? Tenerife is in the Canary Islands a long way from mainland Spain. It's not like comparing treatment in London or Birmingham or Manchester with Madrid or Barcelona. Please compare to similarly remote areas of the UK.

timmylish
30-09-2011, 22:56
I also suffered a stroke some 6 years ago which left me unable to work!
I am still being looked after and attend two different hospitals in that regard. All the doctors, nurses and care assistants have treated me with great care AND respect. I am left in no doubt whatever (by my Daughter in Glasgow who is in the after-care system) that heaven help anyone but should a major health issue arise its better dealt with on Tenerife as opposed to the UK. There are a number of members of this Forum who also agree, from personal experience. Of course like any other organisation of this size there are problems which arise, from time to time.

miguel
01-10-2011, 00:02
I can't comment about tumours but my wife had a major stroke in January and is still being treated on the 'social'.

Her treatment, including after care and physio has been exemplary, I can't thank them enough.

I don't believe it would have been better anywhere else in the world.Hi, Can only agree with Slodgedadīs above post . My wife had two small strokes 4 years ago and the care was brilliant and she still has to go to the hospital 3 times a year for check upīs. Sadly my friend had the same thing happen to him in England at almost the same time. no real after care and sadly no longer with us. Miguel.

Jackie
01-10-2011, 10:23
I can't comment on anything as serious as a stroke or a tumour, but prior to moving here my daughter suffered terribly from Tonsillitis on a regular basis but because she did have four 'serious' attacks of it in any one calendar year our Doctor would not refer her to the hospital to have them out. Apparently this is the practice in the UK. Even when she was admitted to hospital with Jaundice because the infection in her throat was so bad it had travelled to her liver they would still not remove them.

Within about three months of moving here she had two bad attacks of it, one with her ending up in A & E because her temperature was so high due to the infection in her Tonsils being so bad that she was convulsing. Within 6 weeks from that date she had been to El Mojon to see a consultant, she had been to Santa Cruz to see another Specialist, she had her pre op check done at the Green Clinic and three days later was admitted to hospital to have them removed. The aftercare was really good, and with only three patients in a room the nurses were coming in to check on them approx every 15 minutesand asking them if they needed anything. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the State care here.

Johnboy
01-10-2011, 11:30
In 2009 I had an Aortic Aneurysm which I have been told less than 1% of people worldwide ever survive. I was rushed to the Universal hospital in the north and operated on through the night. After two weeks in a coma and three further weeks in intensive care I was moved to a general ward. Seven weeks later I was sent home. The after care has been monitored and changed to suit the changes in my body. I haven't been left to fend for myself in anyway. I visit the doctors every three months and the hospital twice a year for checks. I can't speak highly enough of the medical staff and the treatment here in Tenerife... I have been told by a cardiac nurse in the UK with the amount of wounds I had ( I had more holes than a golf course) I would most probably have contracted MRSA in a British hospital if I survived at all.....

tenerifechris
01-10-2011, 16:58
I am trying to compare the speed of procedure, not the standard of the hospitals. So for example, once a person is diagnosed with a serious problem, how long does it take to see a consultant, time taken for say biopsy results, and the time period a person has to wait for treatment. I realise the establishments cannot be compared. However, when I was in the Green Hospital, I thought the treatment was excellent, beyond compare to anything in an English hospital (NHS).

Thank you for your reply. I hope you continue to recover. PS I love the photograph of your little dog.

bonitatime
01-10-2011, 18:25
What sort of appointment do they have with the specialist, normal, priority or urgent? From the choices and the specialist the receception in your medical centre will be able to tell you how long for an appointment. I hane friends who were treated here with breast cancer and are very happy with everything and someone else with liver cancer who went back to the UK but I didn't like to ask why.

tenerifechris
01-10-2011, 21:29
Just one example is someone I know had a referral from his doctor with a lump in his breast and a lump in lympth nodes, together with an inverted nipple. He had to wait two weeks for an appointment, then biopsy was another two weeks, then the appointment where he was told the lumps were malignant, The hospital must have previously given him a surgery date which was 24 October. Luckily, if that is what you can call it, his daughter works as a secretary to his surgeon, so strings must have been pulled and his surgery date is 10 October. He has had to wait all these weeks, when everyone knows, with cancer you have to act quickly. I decided to go private, and pay, as I am NHS too. I have a benign polyp, but my biopsy only took 5 days, not 14 days. I have had to wait 3 weeks for the surgery, because the consultant is so busy, but because it is benign I feel ok about that.

I wondered what other people's experience of lumps/polyps treatment time was like in Tenerife.