Radio 4 comes up trumps

It really is amazing what writing letters and emails can do. On Thursday night I wrote to Radio 4, as my previous post explains, and then yesterday lunchtime they called me. A researcher for woman’s hour was interested in our story and is going to be referring to it in a programme on Monday morning. I believe the focus of the programme is problems with the NHS or it could be specific to Alzheimer’s. I am not sure because I only had 7 mins to speak to her before having to dash to registration and so it is all a bit of a blur really. I told her that I wanted to do whatever it takes for other people not to have to go through what mum has experienced and she is therefore going to read my blog and get back to me for another future radio article. It’s so difficult to know where to start airing one’s grievances. We shall of course go through the hospital’s complaint’s procedure but who knows what the outcome of that will be (probably not much if NHS admin are involved). But getting this information over to the general public, and raising this issue as a matter of urgency, is paramount.