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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20p7vep1wpo
An RAF veteran and former pilot with tetraplegia says a lack of specialist disability care staff in hospitals has left him with a pressure sore which could confine him to his home until next year.
Jerry Ward, from Cheshire, said he developed the sore after being moved incorrectly by staff at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, where he was admitted in September because his specialist homecare team was not allowed to enter the ward.
The 65-year-old has called on Health Secretary Wes Streeting to change the policy preventing homecare teams like his from entering hospitals, saying it was continuing to put his life "at high risk".
The department of health and social care said it was "fixing the broken NHS" and had created a 10-year plan that would shift care out of hospitals into communities", so people "would receive the right care".
(Sorry, but how are you not doing qshift Braden scale assessments on a quadriplegic? Are they that overworked?)
@GrumpyOldNurse I have no bloody idea, am just very, very angry.
There was also a bit of a scandal where the children of nurses were doing some of the tests which let their parents in too....
@sim @GrumpyOldNurse A lot coming into it are not fit for purpose, either academically or emotionally either, and I have no idea why they pick it when they are so patently unsuited. Also, and this made my hair rise, dyslexics, hand held all the way through, what happens after if can't read a report or write a decent one or understand instructions and fuck up meds etc, so many pitfalls, putting people are risk due to IDPOL again, it's not on.
We have had our people poached by places like Australia that offer better conditions and pay too.
1) how does being from a different country mean you get by with different qualifications? The standard should be the standard, wherever you've come from
2) if you need your kids to write the test for you because of language issues, how do you not have the insight to realize you don't speak the language well enough to work in healthcare in the place?
And, I say this as someone who has worked with internationally educated professionals, both doctors and nurses? Currently, we have a resident who is from far away, my age, moved to Canada, wants to work here, so is doing residency after having been a doctor for over 20 years, and is amazing, but is doing residency after having been a doctor for over 20 years.
Mind you, the NHS are probably people that think an online course and test is enough to count as being qualified. Especially in social care settings. I think they have opened the social care role up to the illegals that came here too. It is dreadful what they have done to this country.
@sim @GrumpyOldNurse Speaking as someone who could have been killed by a Dr with atrocious English I am rabid about the need for proper communication. Had I not been the arsey argumentative bastard that I am, and able to say NO he would probably have done for me.
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It just boggles my mind.
Even though Quebec is in my country, I wouldn't dream of trying to work there as a nurse, because I already know I don't speak French well enough to work in Quebec as a nurse. How is 'can speak the language well enough to work in healthcare' not obvious to people?
Mind you, they probably don't want to be seen as racist...
I did consider going into the sector but I knew that I wouldn't have what it takes in this role and I wouldn't last. The education is hard alone. It's a shame that other people don't have this insight and stay away.
Socialized medicine went broke again and now runs on third world labor.