Humanity

Lying on trolleys like some discarded sacks Waiting for a passing nurse to offer solace Patients cry for help and family stand, wide-eyed Drinking in the scene-of harried staff who Rush around - no time to stop and care, Too busy meeting targets, managing flow....

When my husband was called up urgently in the evening by a consultant haematologist to come into the acute assessment unit at the local hospital, on the same day as he had had a routine blood test at the GP practice, this was never going to be ‘normal’. My husband...

She lay mostly silent and still, the occasional grimace the only indication of moments of intense pain and maybe fear.  The freshly pressed, stark white bed sheet allowed little contrast against her cold skin; all colour had drained from her face and her arm...