The Stafford Report, About Blooming Time

[woofgang]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-20965469

Both my mother in law and my Dh had terrible times in NHS hospitals, especially A and E

[woofgang]

The philippinos who cared for my husband were, some of the best nurses who cared for him. The only problem we had with them was their tendency to converse in their own language at the nurses station. When you feel ill, every little thing is worrying and DH used to wonder if they were talking about him.

[Peter Pedant]

The report is here

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_113018


in case anyone wants to read all 800 pages

[askyourgran]

I was in bed with my leg up in a sling couldn't move. Another patient was calling for a nurse I tried to ring for one but I dropped my alarm bell on the floor. Two of the other patients had the runs, they moved one out, it stunk awful in the small ward I couldn't sleep felt sick with the smell and the coming and goings of nurses, and lights going on and off all night. The Philippino was standing by talking to another nurse and I asked her if she would pick up my alarm bell, she said 'You must ring bell before I see to you'. And walked off.

[pdq1]

The popular misconception is that there are too many managers. Call them what you will but isn't the main problem with the NHS is that its unsupervised and staff do not carry out their basic duties causing many patients to suffer. Maybe its not managers in offices thats required but a managerial structure within wards similar to matrons so that everyone does the job they're supposed to do.

[pdq1]

Also the demise of much of the health service is insisting nurses have a degree. They don't offer degrees in compassion and is the main reason why our career ridden health service is in the doldrums. Either scrap it or modify it that those with qualifications are not labelled with the @Too posh to Wash' syndrome.

[Sqad]

pdq1..........LOL...." too posh to wash syndrome"

I have a lot of sympathy for your comments.
Back on the 50's and 60,s one had to have education and dare I say it " breeding" to go into nursing. Smartness, cleanliness and discipline were the main requirements in nursing and it was said of Barts, Thomas's, Guys and all of the London Teaching Hospitals, that if you father featured in Who.s Who, then you had a chance of being accepted for nursing. bit of a cliche, but you know what I mean. The's girls of the " posh" we're devoted to nursing, on the main and washing, doing what one was told and to maintain the traditions of nursing, was fundamental in their training.

Yes...medicine and nursing has changed, but the basic requirement of patient care and empathy still are required.

[emmie]

which is sadly lacking, compassion and caring should be requirements in nursing, however from personal experience i would say that ship has long sailed.

[pdq1]

Maybe the term 'too posh to wash' is now reserved for those career nurses who have taken degrees and feel insulted to take care of patients ablutions and all the menial tasks needed in the wards.

[pdq1]

They were warned some years ago about this:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/140065/Degree-nurses-could-get-too-posh-to-wash