(Own photos 9.1.15)
Believe almost everything they say in the news. The A&E departments are not getting any better. We were there again yesterday. So many issues and problems with the NHS as a whole, but at the same time, well paid qualified manpower on the ground-floor would make a massive difference. Again it was sickening, horrible, disorientating, lots of unnecessary distress. The paramedics queuing for ages with trolleys off the ambulances - and that’s the rapid way in. One thing you notice in the daytime, is the high numbers of old people, the vulnerable and disabled, but yes, at night there’s more loud injured drunks. Don’t believe all this crap about people going to A&E for the wrong reasons. If the service or support isn’t there in the community and your walk-in centre has been closed down, you certainly don’t go to your GP with a broken leg, a gaul stone or smashed face. Pressure on A&E from what I have seen has nothing to do with people with flu or hypochondria. All that triage happens way before you hit the assessment bays. No-one in there didn’t need help. Even with fast-track resuss’ you sometimes have to wait. But, hey. Even if they are listening, the trust boards, commissioners and politicians shrug. “Austerity” they say, “we must do our bit”. There isn’t a war here! The hospitals are not being bombed, and yet you all still talk like Churchill fending off the Nazi menace, as though plucky resilience will see us through. “Quick, get the porters to wheel these people to EDU, they can languish there but they won’t counted against our failed waiting targets…”
In the hospital proper, finding a doctor today, just to get discharged from a ward was nigh on impossible. Finding a wheelchair was just as hard. All the meds were wrong. Because it’s the weekend. There’s so many stupid retrograde working practices. Privatization and outsourcing arguments aside, so much could solved with intelligent investigation on a busy night in A&E. Dear God, save us from all this idiocy!
Believe almost everything they say in the news. The A&E departments are not getting any better. We were there again yesterday. So many issues and problems with the NHS as a whole, but at the same time, well paid qualified manpower on the ground-floor would make a massive difference. Again it was sickening, horrible, disorientating, lots of unnecessary distress. The paramedics queuing for ages with trolleys off the ambulances - and that’s the rapid way in. One thing you notice in the daytime, is the high numbers of old people, the vulnerable and disabled, but yes, at night there’s more loud injured drunks. Don’t believe all this crap about people going to A&E for the wrong reasons. If the service or support isn’t there in the community and your walk-in centre has been closed down, you certainly don’t go to your GP with a broken leg, a gaul stone or smashed face. Pressure on A&E from what I have seen has nothing to do with people with flu or hypochondria. All that triage happens way before you hit the assessment bays. No-one in there didn’t need help. Even with fast-track resuss’ you sometimes have to wait. But, hey. Even if they are listening, the trust boards, commissioners and politicians shrug. “Austerity” they say, “we must do our bit”. There isn’t a war here! The hospitals are not being bombed, and yet you all still talk like Churchill fending off the Nazi menace, as though plucky resilience will see us through. “Quick, get the porters to wheel these people to EDU, they can languish there but they won’t counted against our failed waiting targets…”
In the hospital proper, finding a doctor today, just to get discharged from a ward was nigh on impossible. Finding a wheelchair was just as hard. All the meds were wrong. Because it’s the weekend. There’s so many stupid retrograde working practices. Privatization and outsourcing arguments aside, so much could solved with intelligent investigation on a busy night in A&E. Dear God, save us from all this idiocy!
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