hospital tip

[devonwoody]

after recent hospital experience (which had a good outcome) I would advise the following tip.

tell your loved one not to vacate her bed not even to go to X-ray dept. my wife had three beds in 24 hours on one occasion , they just nicked it and stuck another patient in whilst she was absent.

 

[finneyb]

Glad to here about the good outcome.

Brian

 

[mailee]

I thought it was only submariners that used the hot bunk system! :lol: Glad the outcome was good John. :wink:

 

[Jonzjob]

Why didn't she leave her towel on it? It works for sunbeds, so I hear :?

 

[RogerS]

I hope they changed the sheets.

 

[devonwoody]

I hope they changed the sheets.

They were doing that as we walked back into the ward on one occasion.

The reason this was occurring was Janet my wife was coming to the end of her hospital stay (17 days at the Plymouth Hospital) that morning at 7am she was told if her xray was satisfactory discharge would follow. However bed was grabbed before the xray got taken.

The cause, many patients were obviously waiting to get a bed and their carers were naturally demanding a bed, this was causing emotional problems and carers were scouting wards looking for spaces and making demands.

Obviously Plymouth needs a larger set up all round.
(As I expect elsewhere)

 

[bugbear]

NHS, finite resources.

BugBear

 

[treeturner123]

Hi

I hold no real grudges against the NHS even though most of my relatives are doctors nurses etc! BugBear is 100% correct in that the demands for health services will always outstrip supply as medicine continues to be able to ‘cure’ more and more ills with more and more expensive treatments!.

However, there are several items that have not helped.

1 - A previous government’s decision to allow GPs to work sorter hours for nearly the same money with no weekend working at their surgery. As a result, quite a few now only work for the ‘Out of Hours’ services.

2 – The idea that new hospitals when they were built under PFI (again, mostly under a previous government) did not need to have so many beds as the old hospitals, I heard an anonymous doctor from the now notorious Worcester Hospital Trust confirm that there were too few beds there now. This also relates to the fact that there is a PFI charge essentially per bed so the fewer the number of beds,, the lower the PFI bill (In theory). On this basis, I’m not sure where any of the parties think they will put more nurses!!

3 – As per 1, Hospital doctors, especially consultants were not required to work weekends – thus the ‘don’t go into hospital at the weekend’ syndrome. It seems that at some trusts this is being reversed, and not before time!

Phil

 

[Phil Pascoe]

It's good to think consultants should work weekends, but it's not only them that are necessary - the whole infrastructure behind them has to work as well - theatres, labs, microbiologists, pharmacists and so on.