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Post by Su on Jun 9, 2024 19:59:38 GMT
NHS needs the biggest kick up the arse going.
Not just money, although that would help, but qualified staff are leaving due to over work and under pay (like teachers, police, firefighters, etc etc)
I will NEVER forget the Tories cheering because they just voted against a 4% pay rise for the nurses. The following month they were given 11%
I am sooo angry about that STILL 🤬🤬
NHS needs to stop trying to reinvent itself and just crack on with healing sick people.
2016 I was lucky (unlucky) enough to experience ICU for myself. As I got better I asked if I could go to the bathroom for a shower (I’d been there for three days by this time and was recovering but there wasn’t a bed for me in the respiratory ward). I was in room one. I went past all six ICUs then past another SIX that weren’t used as there wasn’t enough qualified nurses / money. The last three rooms had been stripped of beds etc to replace broken ones in wards!!
And don’t even get me started on lack of home/social care which means hospitals can’t let patients causing bed blocking! If THAT was sorted that would help soooo much in hospitals.
Sorry. I’ll get off my soap box now…
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Post by Karoline on Jun 10, 2024 17:59:23 GMT
From my experience, this is my new job, a patient doesn’t get referred until medically fit, if they need a social worker (due to funding the home care), this can delay someone being discharged because SW don’t assess in hospitals & that patient needs to wait for a “discharge to assess” bed in a care facility. This process can take week because the patients already in those beds are waiting to be assigned a sw. it is a huge minefield. And watford gen would go made at me because at 4pm on a Friday evening I wouldn’t be able to assess that person to come home
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