The Nhs and its staff are well used to reform and changing working practices. The situation now is that reforms happen so often that the what is started in good faith of the government dont get chance to be implemented fully before the next wave of reforms hit. Everyone is so worried about hitting targets that the main point of the NHS is missed. Staff are not replaced when they retire in a timely manner and although this is a handy cash saving quick fix, it does little for staff moral and the workload of the staff that are left to keep the services running.
work in an nhs hospital and think that it's really unfair that the nurses get a lot of the blame for the spread of mrsa. Most nurses are meticulous on handwashing tecniques, after all do you think that we particularly want to take this bug home to our families? A major cause of spread of mrsa in hospitals is visitors, who may use the antibacterial handwash whilst coming and going but when on the ward think that it's perfectly acceptable to sit on another patient's bed, offer sweets around to all the old dears (diabetic or not), let their kids play with things that they shouldn't and use patient's toilets. How many times do visitors of mrsa patients have to be reminded about using aprons and gloves when visiting? You'll then find them taking dishes into the ward kitchen with the same gloves and aprons on!
True. i used to work as a cleaner in a hospital some years before the privatisation.there were plenty of cleaners to a ward not well paid but had sufficient training in hygiene working and the ward sisters made sure it was carried out properly.now private cleaning firms tender for the contracts cutting costs and doing the job as cheap as possible employing people who are very poorly paid and hardly have any training at all. you get what you pay for..... plus the ward sisters have very little say in the cleaning staffs duties its left to overworked and poorly trained underpaid managers of these firms who are under pressure to keep costs down.....
