mick2me 3,033 Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 Personally, I think their going too far this time. 1 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 A big shout out to all of our nurses, doctors, midwives, porters + other staff working this Christmas. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 I'll second that radfordred. Only this week I saw for myself the hard graft put in for so poor wages. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony 27 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Every time the news media show for example, Accident / Emergency Departments etc the staff both nursing and medical are all either sitting by a desk or staring at a computer. Where is the patient care these days. It never happened in my department - the patient came first. Also it is very difficult to know who is who. All staff wear theatre blue or greens so you have no more idea that the man in the moon who anyone is. Kind regards, Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Perhaps the media should see QMC A&E on a typical evening. Absolutely packed-out and staff running around trying their damnedest to see to everyone within the 4-hour target set for them. Or the staff on the ENT ward my wife is currently in. The care she and all the other patients are getting from the doctors and nurses is excellent. Especially the young doctor who is working twice the hours she is contracted/paid for. 1 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 Its the same with the police. Police stations full of officers staring into computer screens! And I don't think they are posting on Nottstalgia! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 All of my immediate family have, or still are, working within the NHS. From porter to director level with a couple of nurses thrown in. We live just down the road from Stafford hospital that has made so much news. So, you may understand why we are collectively p-eed off with the govt's attitude towards the NHS. Don't believe the smoke and mirrors. This gov't are playing slowly slowly catchy monkey with us. They are hell bent on privatisation - with a lot of greasy palms on the way. My daughter had to organise laying off a lot of staff before being laid off herself. She is now with the probation service which is going the same way. Amazingly the probation service has been quite successful within it's remit but it gets the blame for stupid cost cuttings leading to early prison and institution releases. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 Peverilperil You are so right. There is one sure way to privatise the NHS, and that is to make it unbearable for the staff to work there, and make it so horrible that patients will not want to go to the NHS. 2015 is election year. If it goes to the Conservatives, then the NHS will be totally destroyed. Computers do tell us a lot of things like x-rays, blood results and booking slots for scans and the like. They are not there for amusement. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Patients died due to 'appalling care' at Staffordshire hospitals - Healthcare Commission Appalling standards of care have been exposed at Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals trust, where between 400 and 1,200 more patients died than would be expected in just three years, according to a damning report by the Healthcare Commission. Link to this video By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 1:52PM GMT 17 Mar 2009 Comment Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, described the failures as a 'gross and terrible breach of trust' of patients. A litany of poor standards of care was uncovered by the Healthcare Commission in one of the most critical reports of NHS treatment. It is not clear how many patients died as a direct result of the failures but the Commission found that mortality rates in emergency care were between 27 per cent and 45 per cent higher than would be expected, equating to between 400 and 1,200 excess deaths. Health Secretary Alan Johnson offered his apologies to patients and staff who suffered as a result and the trust chief executive Martin Yeates, and chairman, Toni Brisby, both resigned earlier this year. Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of the Healthcare Commission, said the report is a 'shocking story' and that there were failures at almost every stage of care of emergency patients. "There is no doubt that patients will have suffered and some of them will have died as a result," he said. Related Articles Inquiry into hospital scandal a 'whitewash' relatives say 15 Sep 2009 NHS targets 'may have led to 1,200 deaths' in Mid-Staffordshire 18 Mar 2009 The investigation of the trust now called the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, found overstretched and poorly trained nurses who turned off equipment because they did not know how to work it, newly qualified doctors left to care for patients recovering from surgery at night, patients left for hours in soiled bedclothes, reception staff expected to judge how seriousness of patients arriving at A&E, patients left without food or drink, others who received the wrong medication or none at all, blood and faeces left on lavatories and floors, and doctors diverted away from seriously ill patients in order to treat minor ones who were in danger of breaching the four hour waiting time target. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 My wife and I left the apalling NHS in 1970 to emigrate to the finest system in the world for your average man (the Australian medicare system). Every person has a medicare card(like a bank card) which demonstrates that they are entitled to care,free at point of service. In the appalling NHS millions of non entitled people from all over the world were able to manipulate the system,little wonder it is going broke.I am a poor typist but can tell you the NHS was little more than slave labour for the thousands of exploited nurses and docors from around the world. I do not wish to get into detail,but if Britain adopted a system similar to Australia they would not be at 18 1n the league tables ,but at number 1 as in Australia. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 2015 is election year. If it goes to the Conservatives, then the NHS will be totally destroyed. Safe in Milliband's hands? Pro EU! As Larry Grason would say. Shut that door! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 #9..and of course many other hospitals have since been found to be 'Stafford like'. In recent years Stafford has changed dramatically for the best - still not good enough but far from the worst. It was a wake up call for many hospitals who's CEO's must be thinking 'there for the grace of God'. Stafford was not unique but it's exposure happened to be the first. We people of Stafford are supporting the campaign to keep essential services here. Every one is trying so bleddy hard at the hospital that has been damned and stigmatised. There are protesters still up there in their tents even in this weather! God bless them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 In November I developed a condition... I have an appointment with the specialist... Mid March! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Just watching the news saying A&E's across the country are blocked up with drunks! They should be invoiced for their care whilst sobering up, and should be pursued for payment by legal means if necessary. If they can afford the booze, they can afford to pay. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Stafford A&E moved to Stoke months ago. On Midlands news tonight - "6 hour wait for A&E patients at Stoke". That will include a lot of Stafford people. Not all due to drunks either as the press and gov't would like us to believe. Smoke and mirrors again. Bleddy disgrace!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 Just watching the exit polls tempted to break a wrist just to enjoy the NHS while I can? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Wait for the flood of medical insurance companies advertising "better care" than the NHS and more horror stories, (some of them made up) about the NHS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 We seem to forget the scandals happened not during the last five years but before under the Blair government. Things will only really improve when as another poster said we have a NATIONAL health service NOT an INTERNATIONAL health service. After all governments of all shades have poured in billions of pounds but this will never be enough whilst every Tom, Dick or Harry can come here and get free treatment. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted April 2, 2020 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 Got the big guns ready for tonight, that should get the curtain twitches out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Reports that A & E up & down the country are empty thousands & thousands of empty NHS beds, seems the NHS is finally being used as it was intended? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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