We have no beds in the NHS and no staff and all they care about is their goddamn targets!! It is disgusting how they treat the patients and the staff too.
I worked on a 30 bed medical ward which is mostly elderly people. They combined us with the gynae ward. So now we have a woman who just suffered her 2nd stillbirth in a bed right next to a 90 year old with dementia who spends her days smearing shit on the walls. There is one nurse to 19 or so patients so we barely have time to talk to anyone without risking someone elses life let alone sort out beds.
The rain has been coming through the roof on the ward and tiles have started caving in and coming down. One room is particularly bad. It was too remain empty and the nurses said that they will NOT put a patient in there.
At 3AM last night I get a call that patients are breaching the 4 hour targets in A&E and that they have no beds to put them in so I have to take an admission into the room where the roof is caving in. The roof has been like this for months and they will not pay out to fix it. The admission is a young woman who is miscarrying.
I said I will not put her in that room as it is dangerous and she has been through enough and that room should be condemned. They brought her into it anyway I am in the process of getting busted for insubordination. When I went off duty this morning the on coming nurses promised to get this poor girl into a safe bed even if it means getting another patient transferred out to another hospital. Everyone was appalled. They just treat staff and patients like complete shit.
One of our nurses had an allergic reaction to a med she was handling and went into shock and stopped breathing...ended up on ITU on a ventilator. A manager went down there a day after she came around and told her to get her arse back to work or there would be trouble because A. They are short of beds and B. They can't afford to have staff off sick.
I could go on and on and on and on. You wouldn't believe what goes on.
No beds and no staff. It is a disgrace.