Why the NHS needs to change...

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

Basic care denied to elderly patients

Yet another story about the NHS failing to provide basic care to patients. The NHS, like the curates egg, is only 'good in parts' and given that it costs so much and given that we are meant to be a modern society that is an appalling state of affairs. What good is free healthcare if it means you are condemned to suffer malnutrition, lie in your own filth or need a doctor to prescribe water to you so that you're sure of getting a bloody drink?

There is a lot of knee-jerk 'hands off' opposition to the NHS reforms but how can anyone honestly defend a system that allows such laziness, complacency and neglect?

Larry. How insulting can you be?
At which point did you become an expert on nurses and their intelligence levels?

I have worked with some fantastic nurses who have progressed to be fantastic managers. I have also worked with graduates who quite frankly should work in Tescos.
The real issue is that if you are bad at your job, you don't get the sack you get promoted. Happens all the time within the NHS. Too difficult to get rid of people, easier to shuffle them out of the way of real patients.

Same as within schools.
No one wants choice, they just want their local provider to be the best provider.

The assumption Pants would always be a desirable economic commodity does make me laugh. Nurses, I suggest next time Pants needs a bedpan they may be allowed to fail. [hsmile]