Posted by dapo on Jan 27, 2010 in
NHS,
Talking point I have about staff levels within Pathology for the last couple months. The trigger for my train of thought was the news that nurses will have to get a degree. The initial concerns were that degree educated nurses would not want to get their hands dirty doing the routine tasks in the job. It seems that Wales have already made the nursing profession a degree level profession. And it seems that concerns about ‘too posh to wash‘ have not materialised.
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Tags: BMS, degree, nurses, too posh to wash
Posted by dapo on Oct 12, 2009 in
NHS,
News I saw an interesting piece on the BBC news site. It talked about a report from the Royal College of Surgeons that suggests that the 48 hour per week work limit for doctors is potentially damaging patient care. The original report can be found here.
Whilst the report does contain some valid points e.g. continuity of care being lost, these points are not incompatible with a 48 hour limit. They are incompatible with a 48 hour limit and getting no extra staff to manage the shortfall. The problems discussed in the report can all be handled if the shortfall in hours is plugged by a similar increase in staff. I accept the training issues involved in getting these extra people to a required standard by the European Working Time Regulations have been a long time coming and the underlying training issues could have been addressed by now if action had been taken earlier.
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Tags: 48 hours, BBC, EWTR, NHS, RCS, WTD
Posted by dapo on Jun 13, 2009 in
Good sites,
NHS I have been re-examining the content of the training site and realised I could add some extra RSS feeds to the front page. I have added feeds from the Department of Health and the NHS. I hope these extra feeds prove to be a good resource. If any one can suggest other suitable feeds, I am willing to add more.
Tags: Department of Health, NHS, RSS
Posted by dapo on Jan 27, 2009 in
NHS,
News The NHS IT project for computerised records has hit yet more problems. It seems that any IT project will have problems but this project has been hit more than most. Only the air traffic control centre at Swanwick seems to be worse
Tags: IT, NHS