Posted on 11/27/2009 2:31:50 AM PST by prisoner6
By Daniel Martin
Last updated at 9:39 AM on 27th November 2009
Dozens of patients died needlessly as a result of filthy conditions in an NHS hospital, a shocking report said last night.
Appalling nursing care in Basildon University Hospital contributed to a mortality rate that was more than a third higher than the national average.
At least 70 people may have died who should have been saved.
It is the latest example of patients paying the ultimate price for Labour's failure to stamp out Third World conditions in the NHS - despite trebling taxpayer funding over the past decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The Essex hospital is run by one of the supposedly 'elite' foundation trusts, which have greater freedom to manage their finances. Last night there were angry calls for its entire management team to resign.
Unannounced visits by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission found blood spattered on curtains and chairs in the A&E ward, a catheter bag on the floor, poorly-trained nurses and patients treated on trolleys.
A commode was soiled under the seat, nurses were failing to feed frail elderly people and patients had pressure sores.
Rush, Beck and some others will probably be hitting this today. MSM...not so much.
prisoner6
Many nursing homes in this country where Medicare patients are housed are no better.
prisoner6
The Supreme Court of Canada has already ruled that the government imposed, single payer, government health care monopoly is killing Canadians due to waiting times. Our politicians responded by redoubling their commitment to Stalinist health care. And soon all Americans (except the super rich and politicians) will get to enjoy the benefits of the British - Canadian health care model.
It Did? Where did it say that?
Coming soon to a government-run hospital near you... seriously.
Intended plan for Hussein, Pelosi, and Reid et al. Deny care to as many Americans as possible and you cut Social Security payouts. Holocaust II legalized by the US Congress and this Administration of thugs and Czars.
“Dozens of patients died needlessly as a result of filthy conditions in an NHS hospital, a shocking report said last night.
Appalling nursing care in Basildon University Hospital contributed to a mortality rate that was more than a third higher than the national average.
At least 70 people may have died who should have been saved.”
Imp-pelosi, imp-olite and imp-ertinent say “We gotta have this here in America FAST!”
I wonder what their nurse to patient ratio is at this place. I also have read in the past that the hospitals in the UK cut back on their housekeeping staff and expect nurses to pick up the slack.
Read the entire article. So many egregious failures I don’t know where to start. God help us.
There is no excuse for bedsores on patients.
There is no excuse for failing to feed patients who cannot feed themselves.
Bedsores and unfed patients have little to do with ‘housekeeping staff shortages’.
It has everything to do with the subversive sub-culture that is invading our nursing ranks
Keyphrase: University (attached) Hospital
interesting tidbit from 2001: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nurses-union-in-turmoil-as-top-job-goes-to-former-clinton-aide-686861.html
and in 2007, Malone is back in the good ole USA:
Dr. Beverly Malone, RN, PhD, FAAN (b. 1948) is the chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing. Prior to assuming this position in February 2007, she served as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing for six years. Malone sits on numerous advisory boards and committees and is an internationally renowned speaker. (wiki)
but wait, there’s more:
“The confidence of nurses was shaken last month when the Nursing and Midwifery Council, their regulator, struck Margaret Haywood off the professional register for exposing poor care in a film for the BBC programme Panorama. Her attempt to reveal the substandard care experienced by her patients was interpreted as an intrusion into their privacy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/10/nhs-nurses-hotline-bad-practice
and then, there’s this:
Say goodbye, Florence: British nurses are considering dumping Florence Nightingale as their symbol in a bid to modernize their professional image. “The lady with the lamp,” long considered the founder of modern nursing, is being held partly responsible for nursing’s current staffing problems. The union representing British nurses says Nightingale’s legacy “has held the nursing profession back too long.” Nightingale opposed professional registration for British nurses — she felt nursing was a “calling,” not a profession.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC164995/
and finally, we have these observations:
It is not entirely surprising that people are becoming more worried about dying and death these days. Over the last year or two they have been subjected to a veritable barrage of ‘human interest’ stories about seriously ill people ending their lives, often accompanied by the clear but unfounded sub-text that the law is keeping people alive against their will. These messages come not only from Philip Nitschke (’Dr Death’) and his ‘suicide testing kits’ or from Ludwig Minelli, who proclaims that suicide is ‘a marvellous possibility for a human being’. They emanate also from our home-grown euthanasia lobby, which is attempting as we write this to sabotage a Government Bill (the Coroners and Justice Bill, now before Parliament) designed to increase protection for vulnerable people against being encouraged or assisted to commit suicide, by trying to create loopholes to legalise it.
http://www.carenotkilling.org.uk/?show=730
and this:
Professor Grayling recognises that most doctors wouldn’t have anything to do with ‘assisted dying’, were it ever to be legalised. So he suggests the creation of “a medical specialism devoted to assisted dying, either a subsidiary part of anaesthetics or of terminal palliative care”. http://www.carenotkilling.org.uk/?show=713
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