Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Pat Huxtable
Recent activity
Comments (23)
-
Comment on: Over two thirds of nurses say their directors are invisible on the wards
Yet more of the sort of news that we just don't need/want to hear/see. When did the rot set in? Listening to Question Time on Radio Four this afternoon, one of th questions was about nursing soon to become just for graduates, almost the entire programme afterwards of 'Any Answers' was taken up with people phoning in to bemoan the passing of nursing as a caring profession. Usually the second part of this programme is evenly spread between four or five topics, the fact that so much of this programme was directed to the nursing question says how strongly the general public feel about what they think is happening to our NHS. When oh when is common sense going ot prevail???
-
Comment on: Nurses will be replaced by evil robots - you have been warned
Am I too late to ask as to who is 'Beyond the bedpan'?! And why oh why do so mnay of the good submitters do so anonymously?
-
Comment on: How to provide better quality care with fewer resources
The first reply to this article was anonymous, wish it wasn't! What the writer said is how so many of us older nurses feel. I've recently had to retire through ill health from a profession that I regarded like a vocation, I am saddened by what I see passing for nursing in many respects nowadays and know full well that I'm not alone. There are many within the profession who do not like the way it's going and there are many many patients who bemoan the passing of real nurses, those who care and actually want to look after people in the widest sense of the word.
-
Comment on: NHS could cut 6,500 nurse jobs as recession bites
I've recently had to retire from nursing, qualified back in '74. I just wonder when oh when is anything within the NHS ever going to stand still so people can breathe and take note of what's happening to what used to be the wonderful profession of nursing. When I read through comments above, I note the number who are anonymous, that tells a story. Whilst I was in the NHS, there were so many colleagues who felt so much frustration around their work, were continually tired out and that much used word stressed! but most were frightened to say anything because they felt that they'd be told, You don't want your job, there are plenty more waiting for one! As one anon writer commented upon the ridiculous levels of management, yes and what the whatsit do they all do all day? Sit far away from where the action is! God forbid that they should see any of that! They do paperwork exercises and stare at computer screens to find ways of coming up with meeting Government targets, (the main things that have completely eroded the good will of many many employees). How on earth people in management and I used that word advisably cannot see that what they're doing escapes me! Management are a breed a part they're so far up their own importances that they forget that there are human beings somewhere far away from them who are sick to death of being managed by people with very little care or understanding of the frustrations in today's nursing world. How about a Lemming drive for them, Beachy Head is high enough and broad enough!
-
Comment on: RCN abandons opposition to assisted suicide
Endorse the above comment by Christina McRae, once again you have people who are apparently 'experts' in any given field you care to imagine... (but who are not in the situations themselves), telling those who are! how precious life is and that it is no one's right to wish to, or to actively try to seek an end to interminable suffering/complete loss of dignity as a human being/loss of identity...
