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I have just watched the documentary.
Things have not improved overall by recent changes.
Rather than spreading the butter too thinly, as was the case previously, they now cut fewer slices off the same loaf.
The monitoring machines were not switched off, the auditory signal was disabled, and it seems to have been done because the sound was annoying, generally.
Things have become increasingly technical in nursing and their classroom education has struck me as inadequate and is too often mismatched with the on the job practical training. [my driving instructor could tell when I had been listening to the advice of non-professional drivers, by some marked decrease in my proficiency..cheeky bugger]
All in all, it seems to me that
-pressure from the Government to clean up the hospital's finances in order to achieve Trust Status.
-Giving the job of doing this to someone without a medical background, but with a working knowledge of how to make the statistics fit with the desired outcome,
-and leaving all oversight teams toothless, is what went wrong.
Not asking the correct questions, but getting all the right answers.
I cannot view this as an NHS problem, in so far as it was the business practices overriding the medical necessities that led to the failings at this Mid-Staffs hospital.
A privatised section of the NHS would have a far harder time closing down parts of a hospital, as and when staffing levels fall, and maintain it's credibility...not with recourse to more and more funding.
The health service could do better with less interference from Government, but chucking it wholesale into private hands would be far worse.
Take care of the penny-patients for the pound-pundits will only take care of themselves.