The waste I have seen and the response from drs and nurses is always “It’s the way it has always been done”
There isn’t even acknowledgement that what they are doing is wasteful
I have watched as patients are told they are going home today
They then get up and dressed and 2 nurses arrive to strip the bed, clean the bed and make the bed up
Patient and family then sit on the bed waiting to be discharged. Patient is then discharged. Then 2 nurses arrive to strip the bed, clean the bed and make the bed up. The bed they only made up a few hours before.
Not one nurse understood how much of a waste of time and money what they had done was as “It’s what we have always done”
Exh went to have chemo, the practices in place made so little sense given the NHS is always bleating about the amount of money it needs.
Before patients would arrive in the morning nurses would set out trays and label them with the patients name. On each tray would be placed a bag of the chemo needed, a new box of gloves, new box of antiseptic wipes and any other things they needed.
When a patient arrived the nurse would take the bag of chemo and because it had been out of the fridge for a while and throw it in the bin
They would then collect a fresh bag of chemo from the fridge.
At the end of the session anything on the tray (I.e box of 50 or 100 pairs of sterile gloves where one or 2 pairs had been used for that patient and the box of antiseptic wipes which are in there own packaging and again only 1 or 2 having been used would be thrown in the bin.
I would say that the NHS doesn’t need more money. It just needs to stop chucking stuff in the bin and doing unnecessary tasks