Any NHS workers... nurses

[Elmo230885]

Trying to figure out if it's just my team or a wider NHS thing.

I'm a nurse and have been qualified for over a decade. Recently have started work in the NHS, community based, I've always worked private before. I'm on less money but figured the NHS would be a good place to work - pension, terms etc

I can't deal with the amount of micromanagement and stupid recording. E.g. today I sent a 30 second email, I then had to document this email/ allocate my time in three different places. I then had an email from a manager asking why I hadn't documented the email, she's not spotted it as I'd tabbed ot for the date not the specific time! This is sort of the straw that broke the camels back today... but it feels constant.

Constant cc ing everyone into emails, running everything by everyone but people still won't make a decision without running it by 600 other people. A report needs doing, I do said report but still have reminders that it needs doing and people checking up.

Why can't I just get on with my stuff?? Maybe other roles have spoilt me but I just want to be able to get on!!

The NHS is slowly dying of strangulation in its own red tape. It is ridiculously overmanaged by tick box checking jobsworths, none of whom are capable of making a basic decision, and who fill their days with pointless meetings.
I retired 6 years ago from my post as a hospital doctor.
The final straw for me was the Trust diktat that all doctors - including consultant dermatologists - had to have their skin checked every 6 months for industrial dermatitis by a secretary with one hour’s training!
Honestly, you couldn’t make it up.
Did I mention the 23 point checklist, pointlessly repeated six times between the ward and the operating theatre, for every patient? Which slowed theatre throughput from 20 patients a day down to six?

Good luck, OP. I would book yourself a bed in the psych unit, you’ll need it if you work in the NHS shit show for much longer!

So not just me being picky then! It's exhausting I feel.like I spend more time ticking boxes and telling various people that I've ticked the box than actually doing any work with patients! If you question anything it just results in another box!!

Oh and I work into psych wards working on discharge... well I would if I wasn't ticking boxes. I might try to keep one free for myself.

I finish a job as a band 5 next week and can't wait to be free of the constant messages of what we've done wrong that shift/day/week.
Hardly any acknowledgement of being wickedly short staffed, staff regularly missing breaks etc.

Dh is a Consultant he’s slowly being driven into an early grave by the constant instructions/checking/ box ticking/ repetitive bull shit. He now gets regular phone calls when he’s trying to do a ward round, from junior managers asking why he didn’t discharge Mrs Smith in bed 9. He has decided to switch his phone off. That will result in some nasty threatening emails for sure.

I presume most of the box ticking is to justify funding for the teams but it seems counter productive to me.

Move into primary care. I don’t have any of that bollocks.

Pay is crap as no AFC but NHS pension, I have great colleagues and I can just get on with my job.

Obviously I have mandatory training and CPD but it’s entirely manageable.

Yes it’s busy and pressured and stressful but a million times better than “mainstream” NHS.

I don't particularly enjoy this particular job so I wasn't sure if I was finding it all annoying because of that. Now I don't think I want to wait for something i will enjoy more if its going to be ruined by the same issue I find irritating.