Killing off general health
22:01 Thursday 4 Oct 07
BBC: “Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was about making the NHS the “best it can be”.”
Times Online: Take a blank canvas. Talk to 1,500 NHS staff. Spend 12 weeks thinking hard. And then come up with the ideas you first thought of. by
Telegraph: “Lord Darzi, a world-renowned consultant”
Daily Mail: Professor Sir Ara Darzi – a pioneer in robot-assisted surgery
Daily Mail snippet:
Nurses will swab anyone admitted to hospital to test for life-threatening infections such as MRSA.
Those with positive results will be placed in isolation and given creams and body washes to clear the bugs.
Really? Smidge of cream and a good wash fixes MRSA? As if.
They are doing to general health what they did to mental health and learning disabilities nursing over the past 20 years. What people should be doing is investigating every management level in every hospital and Trust – backhanders will be happening. They probably always have but the bungs just keep getting bigger.
Work in the Health Service? You must be mad. Get out while you can.
(Read the Guardian article)
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With my very recent experiences of the NHS, I’m glad there *are* people that work in the Health Service, although if Rich does test positive for MRSA I can’t wait to see him zipped up in a bag. :)
My experience with him was sooooo positive: seen in casualty in under half an hour, and on a drip in a hospital bed (of which there were many free) 2 hours later. However your recent blog post about J and my phone call from my GP warning me that the procedure I so desperately hope for probably won’t get funded because of the PCT debt means that there are serious issues that need sorting.
But for now, I’m happy the NHS is there.
13:46 Monday 8 Oct 07
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