[Vicky.]

Also as someone who has recently spent a fair bit of time in hospital, I can't say I have noticed a difference in staffing levels weekend V weekday. Night V day though, on a night there were TWO nurses to watch a ward full of 18 who were all classed as very ill as they were all post surgery. On a day there was one nurse per 3 patients. It took me like 2 hours on some nights to get my morphine shot because of low staffing levels. I have to say though, the night staff were so much friendlier than the day ones.

I did have to wait til the Monday for my surgery though. I was originally meant to get it on the Sunday but I wasn't 'emergency' as such at that point.