short changed for their healthcare with reduction in services throughout the country and postcode healthcare becoming more prevalent ! Does any one feel the way I do because it is so frustrating trying to deliver care when you are given substandard facilities and over inflated wages of management!
2007-02-26 12:21:59 · 6 answers · asked by Andrew1968 5 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I beat you! I've been at it for more than 30 years. I have a hugh amount of sympathy for your comments.
I might be more sympathetic to management costs if I believed they really did a good job. I'm afraid like you I am unimpressed.
I am old old enough to have been there when doctors, nurses, cleaners, other ancillary staff AND ADMINISTRATORS, pulled together for the good of the patients, for the good name of the hospitals we loved and because our moral was high as we were doing the jobs we loved.
Successive governments of all persuasions have bred all those things out of us.
They have forced us to only care about numbers and money, to be afraid to do our jobs and often to be afraid of our jobs. I agree the system has been screwed totally by the yearly changing initiatives, which run us round in circles and continue to make it worse and worse, not only for patients but most certainly for staff, and I am here not talking about financial reward!
2007-02-26 12:37:30 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Frank 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This issue raises it's head every single day in work.
As an employee, I see constant waste at every level, lack of enthusiasm for the job, inefficient use of people, time and resources - I mean, do we really need 5 ODP's sitting around to open one pack of sutures?! Having to wait for patients between ops is another joke, the staff seem more interested in having a tea/coffee/smoke break than in providing a service to the patient, who has after all paid for it! We also have patients cancelled at the end of the list just because it is anticipated that the time will overun. So the poor sod has to go home and wait for another slot to become available - at huge expense - all because people can't be arsed working an extra half an hour.
However, as a patient, and as someone who had a relative who was in hospital for 9 months with cancer, I think the NHS is brilliant. If you speak to patients about what THEY think about the NHS then most of them are more than pleased with the service. The press feed this constant drip, drip, drip of miserable stories and, unfortunately, this is the only view than many people have of the NHS.
The NHS is brilliant - healthy people take it for granted that it will be there when they need it yet moan about it without reason. The sick (usually) sing it's praises - especially the elderly as they remember the days before it's existence.
If the people who worked within the NHS spent less time moaning about how crap it is and more time getting on with their work then productivity would increase far more than the huge cash injection from the government produced.
Long live the NHS!
2007-02-26 21:48:59 · answer #2 · answered by Dr Kildare 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've been in HealthCare in the USA for over 38 years. Even here, without socialized medicine, the situation is getting worse, although the public really isn't aware of it yet. Regulations from the government have made the patient secondary to the corporation. Money is the bottom line. If you are very rich or very very poor you can get health care. If you are on Medicare (over 65 and did not work for the government) or middle class poor, forget it.
2007-02-26 20:31:28 · answer #3 · answered by nanlwart 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree that normal health care services are stretched. The finance just doen't make sense. I was unable to work for 4 years while I was waiting on a spine operation. I reckon that the sick pay and disabilty that I recevied in 4 years would of went a long way to paying for my operation.
Althought in saying that my husband was diagnoised with cancer last year and the care he received in the New cancer unit here in NI was first class.
All health workers do a fantastic job, and I think 95% of the public know that.
2007-02-26 20:33:34 · answer #4 · answered by pebbles 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To be honest, I often think we get a bit too much health care. Constant nagging springs to mind eg smoking, cholesterol, five-a-day, it never seems to stop. If they spent less resources nagging there would be more left for other things. Plus if they spent less resouces nagging I think there would be a lot less depression and anger about.
2007-02-26 21:04:54 · answer #5 · answered by DIANNE M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i have mental health problems and the waiting list is 2 years for assessment for cbt
2007-02-26 20:26:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋