Why are some NHS staff unkept looking?

[BoozySuzie]

I don't visit hospitals often thank goodness but I can't help but notice a lot of staff in hospitals are quite scruffy. Surely working in a hospital environment it is imperitive to be spotlessly clean and well groomed?? The Philipino nurses always look clean and tidy it's just our staff.

I'm surprised all nurses arent scruffy and thin as rakes, I mean they always seem rushed off their feet when do they get time to brush their hair/eat?

oh God it's still going I see. FFS!!

Notice NHS manager bowed out before answering the tricky questions of staff to patient ratios.

It is easy to condemn a workforce. I will not condemn until I have walked in the footsteps of the people I am condemning.

Having said that, you do realise Human Resources are actually Human Remains (cannot claim that, thats what my sister calls them).

Lets start another thread, should NHS managers to allowed to manage after they have had lobotomys.

What none of the nurses have admitted to is the extra session we have during training on looking scruffy and harrassed at work in order to gain maximum public sympathy and support. I think it came in about 1997!!!

What exactly do you mean by this bizarre and sweeping statement, nhsmanager?

As for 'customers' - well, words fail me. Fucking hell. Everything that's wrong with the NHS in three small syllables.

I havent read all the thread but I too have noticed how overweight most NHS nurses are - they are hardly setting a good examples to their patients are they?

Most are scruffy too - look like they have just roll out of bed .

right back atcha, Amy

PMSL

I think midwives must get it easier than nurses (breaks, decent grub etc) as they are slightly slimmer .

FFS the majority of Brit women are overweight. The majority of nhs nurses are women. 1 + 1 = 2.

Bearing in mind the average Brit womens size is 16.

NURSES please would you be so kind as to answer my health thread ? Don't waste your time on this thread anymore, use your valuable skills on ME !

I so agree that the NHS needs less pen pushers and more Nurses/Doctors/people who do more than just 'float ideas around on a piece of paper'.

They are in their offices sat down doing feck all most of the day claiming to be very important thinking they know whats best for the ones in the hospital working their asses off. The whole thing makes me sick especially as the pen pushes are usually highly paid as well when it should be the Doctors and Nurses.

The pen pushers are usually very clever with their words avoiding difficult and direct questions. If you made them work a Nurses shift they would be lost to all thats content even though they claim they could do it.

Waste of space+big talk+bullshit=pen pushers!

AmyWinehouseFan, your name says it all, eh? .

In my limited experience I can count how many NHS managers have visited the 'shop floor' on my hands. Also, it is well known that the department management try to create the best impression so that the department looks good and therefore staffing is adjusted to meet requirements etc. This gives the false impression that everything is organised and running well, but it falls apart again when they leave.
It akes long enough to get an appt with the sister in charge of the dept, let alone seniour management in 99% of trusts. Usually you are to busy to get away for the meeting and cannot get any cover to leave the dept anyway Lower grade staff are deterred from whistle blowing when things go wrong due to understaffing.

Computer froze last night about the same time as boozy suzy went. Tried to catch up, can't believe the crap on this thread
I'm 2 hours late off duty and am just repairing a hole in my uniform.

nhsmanager and you call me sad boozy.

Hospitals are horrible places though. There is nothing nice about them, most are victorian/old looking inside and out, the staff always look miserable (unerstandably). The nurses are on the plump side but are still nice enough under the circumstances. A little bit unkempt but not overly.

More sweeping generalisations??
This thread must be breaking all records.

No sweeping generalizations here, most are like this .

i would have posted earlier but i have been at work and am too manky and unkempt to get to the PC

i hope your mobile hairdresser is on her way, scottishmummy .

LOL Taylor Freguson is racing to get her tame my tugs

and you've remembered to book Jemma Kidd to come and do your makeup before your next chef, right?

and Gordon Ramsay to come cook you some healthy meals to put in the microwave for you to eat at work?

aye and my personal yoga master peshwari-nan for ma piles pilates

Ruby and millie should be avail on demand for us nhs divas, so we are hot to trot on the ward