#21
Yes, but I also think we should acknowledge the debt of gratitude owed to agency nurses.......often treated as second best on wards but often more skilled and able than substantive staff, and without whom the NHS would have ground to a halt years ago. Many wards quite simply could not fundtion without agency staff.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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#22
Because of shortages agency staff have been used, and they are valued, but they are also expensive and thats howards point.
But when your in hospitals and the drunks come in to have a fight, would you want to be a nurse?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#23
keith
i have never understood why they do not employ security people for the a & e departments on friday and saturday nights.
any cost be balanced out by the hospital staff not taking time off for stress or violence related activity.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#24
To go back a bit, there was a time when you went to your doctors they would check your blood pressure as a matter of routine and if you had to call one out in the evening the chances were good that you would get your normal doctor. Now those same doctors get paid more for advising smokers to give up (with no follow through required as it is statistical evidence) than they do for being on-call. If they want to earn extra then they can take blood pressure readings from their diabetic patients and pocket a nice little earner at the same time. All of this comes from the same NHS budget that pays for NHS GP's, PCT's Hospitals, polyclinics etc. This same budget also pays for the heavily biased studies and surveys that are produced, designed to give precisely the answers they were planning for anyway. It would seem that the more money spent on an increasingly greater number of different governing bodies then the less service the patients are actually getting. The worst example of the double talk is that we are told Dover only needs a polyclinic instead of a hospital while Ashford now seems to require both. Dover needs a proper hospital, not just for the town but for the surrounding villages as well, and it is time they stopped worrying about the 'spending power' of the various sub groupings and listened to the tax payers whose money it is in the first place.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour