Frontline staff to lose jobs

World International

Published

http://m.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/17/nhs-hospitals-axeing-frontline-staff?cat=society&type=article

Sign of things to come, saw this in the papers today,

The government's repeated pledges to protect frontline NHS services

have been dramatically undermined by a wave of job losses at two

hospitals, with fears that as many as 1,000 posts could disappear.

Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
Zippy do you mind if I ask how many patients your 10 staff cover

32 and it's rare to have less than a dozen patients with tetraplegia or central cord syndrome ( and the consequent problems that brings for feeding and self care ) ... and of course the acutes who are 4 or 5 staff to move / log roll, get more than a couple of people with C4 or C4/C5 injuries and that really messes things up as that really is TOTAL assistance ... never mind halo traction etc ....

you also have to bear in mind that those woh need to be up and in the gym for physio need to be ready by 10 am for the first group , so even with help from the OTs with regarding to washing and dressing patients , to get bowel cares, breakfast, '8 am ' medication round and those who need to be up for 10 am or 11 am up it's a real challenge ...

but after all we aren't busy because we only have a couple of admissions or discharges ' in speciality' a week ...

Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

That's a lot of spinal injured patients for 10 staff. Our ratios are 10 for 24 patients.

Update. are ward closures ever anything but chaos i wonder.

ward closure will be in 2 phases and inculde a ward move.

we downsize to half (our pt numbers&staff,) and then merge with a cardiology ward and then a complete shut(god only knows when)

staff morale is very poor with no staff really and those that are in are fed up, i think this is normal though.

I 'm being released in the 1st phase to my new ward as they need a staff nurse, how much use i'll be with only student neuro-surg ward experince i don't know but ill be supernumeray for 2 weeks i hope.

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