An echo to everything Steve and Dave say above. Between 2005 and 2014 I spent months in Lincoln County Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, had two major abdominal surgeries, and drainage and treatment for a liver abscess which necessitated the drain being inserted under CT Scan, and which included several days in ICU. The care I was given was at all times exemplary. The fact that I’m still here typing this post is down to the care I received in both hospitals.

One heartwarming thing that has stayed with me is how in 2014, and not having been in QMC since 2007, I was admitted there for the liver abscess, and several of the nurses and ancillary staff in ward E15 remembered me, we’re very kind to me indeed, and made me feel like a long-lost buddy. When you feel like shite, little things like that become very important.