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I don't think anyone has said anything like that. I would hope that the vast majority of those in the caring professions WOULD care about their jobs and their patients, just like Pete1983.Can We Please Not Assume They All Don't Care!'
Indeed it is. But New Cross can be a different kettle of fish, depending on the ward/department you go to.Wolverhampton Eye hospital is fantastic.
I won't pretend to know anything about the extra stresses of working at a hospital, cause i don't.The staff on The Acute Cardiac Ward were working well beyond the call of duty with many of them staying over a couple of hours after their shift had ended on some occassions, because they cared ...
Just a shame all of the staff recruited at the hospital aren't so dedicated.
(Whilst hubby was awaiting his water on ward 2 and loads of other buzzers beeping away like mad, one of the nurses had her mobile phone out for ages,showing her colleagues something hilarious on it! )
You canonly ever speak as you find and I have to say that all my experiences of Stafford hospital have been positive.If it really is as shit as everyone is making out and there are now plans to close it at the weekends due to ''staffing issues'', why not just close the damn thing altogether. It's reputation is totally in the gutter and is becoming more of a joke as time goes on.
Their argument is sending people to a hospital with inadequate staff could lead to lives being put at risk, but surely driving them to a hospital further away either in North Staffs or Wolvo isn't much better??
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/10/06/stafford-hospital-ae-may-shut-at-weekends/
Although last time my mate broke her wrist we got to the hospital at 2am and she wasn't seen till 8.55am! and this was in A&E too, infact no one really was seen.
No, I'll take a look if it's available online.
M.D. said:Death is only one measure of the quality of healthcare, but it's a crucially important one. It's relatively easy to spot, one-off, irreversible and - when avoidable - it's the biggest harm the NHS can do to you.
Kark asks Taylor about how the HSMRs can legitimately be used and Taylor fudges initially – but when he is asked directly whether HSMRs can provide an effective measure of safety, he backtracks and says it can only identify where there is a risk that something might be wrong.
M.D. said:It was a comparison of death rates in different units that revealed the Bristol heart scandal...
M.D. said:A key lesson from Bristol was that a vital step to a safe NHS was accurate, publicly available comparative data on death across the service, combined with a duty to investigate higher-than-expected death rates quickly and thoroughly...
In hospitals, at least, Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs) have been measured since the mid 1990's... The HMSRs [for Mid Staffs] from 2001-02 to 2007-08 were all significantly high. These figures were in the public domain, available to all who cared to look.. The Department of Health and successive Labour health secretaries (Alan Milburn; John Reid; Patricia Hewitt; Alan Johnson; and Burnham) should have been monitoring and discussing them with their NHS chief executives.
M.D. said:Another way to reduce mortality rate alerts is to change the diagnosis. Patients come in with a fractured hip, and the longer the delay in operating, the more likely they will die, often from pneumonia. But if they have the pneumonia longer than the fractured hip, their primary diagnosis can be recorded as the former, and they vanish from the hip fracture mortality alerts.
M.D. said:Using this method, the number of people dying after fracturing their femur at Mid Staffs fell from 87% to 40%, even though the number of people dying didn't change...
By 2009, a patient with a hip fracture was seemingly five times less likely to die if admitted to Mid Staffs than to the average English hospital.
M.D said:Lest we Forget
M.D said:If you only have time to read one Francis report, make it his first independent inquiry, published in February 2010. The stories behind the harm are staggering. An old man forced to stay on a commode for 55 minutes wearing only a pyjama top; a woman whose legs were "red raw" because of the effect of her uncleaned faeces; piles of soiled sheets and vomit bowls left at the ends of beds, a woman arrived at 10am to find her 96-year-old mother-in-law "completely naked... and covered with faeces... It was in her hair, her nails, her hands and on all the cot sides... it was literally everywhere and it was dried" Another woman who found her mother with faeces under her nails asked for them to be cut, but was told that it was "not in the nurses' remit to cut patients' nails".
skwalker1964 said:Appalling if true
As I understand it that is pretty much a blanket policy amongst hospitals. They all seem to have chiropodists on site so it shouldn't really be an issue. In much the same way you wouldn't expect a nurse to carry out physiotherapy. That's what physiotherapists are for.I concur with Glam, my family were advised this at North Staffs some time back, nurses do not cut nails
Utter bollocks! Where's your evidence for this other than just Internet hearsay?Don't know where to put this as it's more personal, and not on topic
But apparently reported by a few people. that have questioned some of the things Mrs.Saint has said or asked her something ( Not insulting) they've been blocked and sent virus links, and to their followers too this from a grown women concerns me. (Yet left insulting tweets alone!! hmm)
So don't question anything she says ! or well don't click on any links, Pathetic really.
Also she tweeted this the other day before deleting it,
"putting the nursing back in nurses"
I fear for her mental health.
On a positive note, glad people are standing up for the hospital, lets hope something happens, and we ignore Mrs.Bailey.. and focus on the hospital because that's what is important and what matters.
Still waiting for your evidence to back this up. Won't be holding my breath though...Think what you want, some of the lies will come out soon enough and the truth.
Deleted a lot before March 7th. you can see this yourself if you're not to stupid to work it out.
Hopefully the people that said it post something like a screenshot / evidence, one of them has said they still have the tweets on her profile, I don't know this person- so I can't go on her profile- But like I said, I hope they read here actually, and post something to prove it.
Knew I'd get someone like you responding not surprised either, does seem a bit to stupid to be true.
Still waiting for your evidence to back this up. Won't be holding my breath though...