The whole point is that most of the people making the decisions are not clinicians, to me anything that affects patient care should me made by people with the appropriate medical background. All to often now decisions are being made in the NHS by people who are selling baked beans to supper market managers one week, then the week after making crucial decisions affecting patient care, a recipe for disaster. Its no use people commenting on these things unless they have been at the sharp end, and believe me only two months ago I was at the sharp end, and saw for myself the the stupidity of it all. I have said in earlier posts that the ward I was on was staffed by staff from Burnley, The ward they came from was a state of the art ward (the sisters words not mine) which had been closed and the staff moved to the Royal. They are now working in a ward which had been closed for refurbishment, but was reopened without as much as a lick of paint because they'd run out of money. It was a total balls up, I was eating my meals on my bed because there were no bedside tables, no water jugs, the lockers were from the arc or again in the words of the sister a s*** tip
