Don't get sick in Essex

[Dai]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8381118.stm

The inspectors saw:

• Floors and curtains stained with blood

• Blood-splattered on trays used to carry equipment

• Badly soiled mattresses in the A&E department with stains soaked through to the foam filling

• Items that should only be used once still in use

• Equipment in the resuscitation room that was past the use-by date

• A children's blood pressure cuff heavily stained with blood

• Suction machines contaminated with fluid inside and out with what looked like mould growing on the equipment

What on earth is happening to our hospitals?

[Will21st]

Originally Posted by DaiNasty

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8381118.stm

The inspectors saw:

• Floors and curtains stained with blood

• Blood-splattered on trays used to carry equipment

• Badly soiled mattresses in the A&E department with stains soaked through to the foam filling

• Items that should only be used once still in use

• Equipment in the resuscitation room that was past the use-by date

• A children's blood pressure cuff heavily stained with blood

• Suction machines contaminated with fluid inside and out with what looked like mould growing on the equipment

What on earth is happening to our hospitals?

Why,that's the great NHS at work,a.k.a the envy of the world!!

[Mick Fisher]

Originally Posted by DaiNasty

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8381118.stm

The inspectors saw:

• Floors and curtains stained with blood

• Blood-splattered on trays used to carry equipment

• Badly soiled mattresses in the A&E department with stains soaked through to the foam filling

• Items that should only be used once still in use

• Equipment in the resuscitation room that was past the use-by date

• A children's blood pressure cuff heavily stained with blood

• Suction machines contaminated with fluid inside and out with what looked like mould growing on the equipment

What on earth is happening to our hospitals?

By those that administer the services it's called hitting targets, working within budgets, being efficient, conserving resources, learning lessons, to name but a few.

To everyone else it just looks like gross incompetance and mis-management.

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

By those that administer the services it's called hitting targets, working within budgets, being efficient, conserving resources, learning lessons, to name but a few.

To everyone else it just looks like gross incompetance and mis-management.

Looks like mis-management to me.

[alferret]

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation is my home town health authority as I was born and brought up in Grays.
I was last at Basildon hospital in the beginning of Oct this year when my daughter gave birth.
Although the main ward she was on was reasonably tidy there was dirt\grime on the window sills that I noticed and at the time I didnt think much of it. But the discharge ward she went to the day she left there was quite dirty & smelly.

My mother was there March 08 when she broke her hip & later in the year when she had other problems. My aunt constantly complained about the state of the ward she was on and the lack of care shown by some of the nurses that worked on the ward.

I'm so glad I moved away from the area.

[Paul K]

Too many chiefs and too few indians (and other races). All the money is being urinated up the wall by the idiots in charge and it's not leaving enough for the correct level of staffing and correct level of training and controls.

[Ramrod]

Nothing new here. I could literally go on all day listing examples of misdiagnosis, incompetence, dirt, pig headedness.....etc. There have been a few notable exceptions over the years but I have generally found the nhs and it's staff to be mediocre to poor in their performance

[Dai]

And the other shocking issue is that *nobody* will get fired for this. The managers will offer up some spokeperson to say 'lessons will be learned' and the whole issue will be brushed under the corporate shagpile.

I thought management = responsibility but in the surreal world of the NHS nobody is ever ultimately to blame.