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Originally Posted by grego
Unfortunately the NHS is all about meeting targets, they have to be met in order to get funding, the staff however are just put under even more pressure and I can understand why so many of them will be unhappy about it.
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Sorry but that is life.
My company (as most do) has deadlines to meet every day. You get an order and a delivery date. If you don't make the product and get it to the customer on time you loose the order.
The problem with the NHS is that we have been throwing money at it and not been getting value for money. It may well be the best health service in the world but it is poorly run. I don't just blame the management either.
Every time I visit a hospital I see Doctors and nurses breaking simple hygiene rules. Its no wonder there is such a problem with hospital acquired infections.
My son had his tonsils out the day after boxing day last year. He was in the nice new children's day surgical ward. There was not one bottle of alcohol had rub anywhere. Every bed area had a holder for it but they were all empty. As you enter the hospital it reminds to clean your hands. Have none of the nursing staff not noticed they are missing? Do they not use the stuff?
When the nurse took the venflon out from the back of her hand she did not wear gloves. She but the dressing covered in dried blood on top of the TV stand where he was watching TV. I wonder if that is standard practice.
I could go on about the midwife who wrote the wrong medication on my wifes notes when our first was born or how I overheard some nurses at Accy Vic saying they should not wear wrist watches and cardigans as they prevent you from washing your hands properly but they both were doing and many other incidents I have seen.
I know many nurses/doctors do a good job but I believe there are more who flaunt the rules through either ignorance or just laziness.
I have had my appointments with my consultant cancelled a couple of times because he was on holiday. I can't just take holidays at work at short notice so why should he?
Ok rant over, sorry folks but I am just telling it as I see it.