To think that A Health Care worker should not re-use a rubber glove from the bin

[NotQuintAtAllOhNo]

and use on a new patient?

Even if she did not put it on her hand, but added it to the dressing to keep it all moist?

Or am I precious?

Considering whether to call the Practice Manager tomorrow or not.

Still waiting for the Manager to call me back.

YANBU, grim, very grim.

I know what you mean about being too shocked to deal with it at the time. A few weeks ago DS2 had a routine hospital apt but we saw the reg who proceeded to carry out a procedure on him that neither DS nor I was expecting. Also one that should have been done with sedation. I am just as angry with myself as I just sat like until something clicked & I asked him to stop.

Hope you get a satisfactory response.

I am glad to report that the practice manager was utterly shocked, and very apologetic and would investigate.

I'm relieved to hear that the practice manager was shocked.

Well, the manager seems to have given the podiatrist my number to call me, so she has left a voicemail asking me to call her back...

Not sure what I think about that.

No doubt they have concocted some excuse and will fob me off...

Passing on your private details too?

Yes indeed.

The podiatrist is self employed, not an employee, and works out of this clinic a few days a week, and out of another clinic other days. She called me from her other clinic.

The practice manager did not tell me she would ask the podiatrist to call me.
She said that she needed to discuss this with the practice owners and investigate before calling me back.

Bloody hell! I'd be thinking troll if I didn't recognise you.

Glad it wasn't the NHS.

I dont think I can name and shame, as I dont wont to be accused of slander, or have mn accused of libel, or what not.

You know Norks, I have spent so many years here, that I know that anything out of the ordinary will be looked upon with suspicion, and if it beggars belief, I post under my regular name, for sure!

:)

My Health Trust disgracefully did not sack a nurse who reused a needle on a psychiatric community patient. She had driven to their home and realised she did not have a fresh needle for administering his bi-weekly Depot antipsychotic medication.

So she fished a needle out of her cin-bin and reused it......She was disciplined, demoted a paygrade and was moved from the community mental health team to an acute adult in-patient unit and told to embark upon a programme of clinical supervision (which should be a given for any staff member so hardly a 're-training' move)....

She was not referred to the NMC, the patient and their family was kept in the dark and she basically got away with it.

She should have been struck off the nursing register. This happened 10 years ago.

Don't ring her back. Call the clinic again in the morning to add the passing on of your details, without consent, to your complaint.

Maybe I shall just write a letter and add the passing on of private information to the complaint?

Ds has a follow up on saturday, I guess I should find a new podiatrist.

thats digusting was it a bin with a yellow bag if so all types of bodily fluids go in there faecal matter included complain!

Maybe the manager didn't ask the podiatrist to call you, if she was asked about the complaint maybe she did it off her own bat. Your contact details are probably on your medical file which she would have access to. I would call the practice manager again tomorrow and ask what is going on.

You beat me to it Shelby - just what I was going to say. I think it is less likely that the practice manager is also breaching good practice than that the podiatrist is breaching it again. I agree with Lev that you should not engage with the podiatrist directly, since I'm pretty sure this will be a disciplinary matter.

It's hard to know how the complaint will be handled, because this was a private podiatrist. The NHS complaints procedure won't apply. If the practice manager doesn't respond satisfactorily, then I think your next step is a complain to the Health and Care Professions Council , which regulates everyone who calls themselves a podiatrist. To be honest, I think I'd probably contact them anyway.

I can't get over how shocking this is. :(

Sorry OP, I wasn't meaning to be rude. I totally understand how being stressed can affect how you react to things. Hope this gets taken seriously and dealt with by the manager.

If you are not happy with the way it has been dealt with you can check if she is registered here.

www.hpc-uk.org/check/

If her name does appear there then you can then raise a complaint here

www.hpc-uk.org/complaints/raiseaconcern/

It was a glove dispenser. FFS.