36000 Thanx!

 

 

 

Many thanks for taking this Blog to 36000 - it's been a struggle.

 

It all started after St. Peter's Hospital, Chertsey sent me home with a seriously broken ankle for a week. When I complained the Accident and Emergency department didn't take it seriously; they never dealt with the problem. They blamed the inexperience of junior Doctors when this was a mistake by a consultant who did not know what he was doing.

 

He was allowed to continue to practise until his contract ran out.

 

Since then I've discovered how bad Wexham Park Hospital, Slough is - that's the next hospital along.

 

I've also found out about the appalling record of The Abraham Cowley Unit; that's a psychiatric hospital in the grounds of St. Peter's but run by a separate health trust.

 

As far as St. Peter's is concerned there are good departments and bad ones.

 

Wexham Park is a failing hospital - taken into special measures last year due to the risk of harm to patients and then taken over by Frimley Park Health Trust. It is still a risk to patients and the problems are systemic; they run through the whole hospital.

 

So, I may have cancer and I may have bust my back but I'm not about to give up - not just yet.

 

Neil Harris

 

(a don't stop till you drop production)

 

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Contact me: neilwithpromisestokeep@gmail.com

 

 

 

Staff Shortages at the Accident and Emergency departments

UGIMME 10 !

BBC News has done some great research and reporting on staff shortages at the Accident and Emergency Departments up and down the country.

I’ve posted the full list on my other Blog;

helpmesortoutthenhs.blogspot.com 

Meanwhile;

Here’s our local league table. Am I alone in thinking that the number of unfilled vacancies reflect the unhappiness staff feel at working in a hospital’s A and E, the quality of life staff have and ultimately the quality of care patients receive?

This league table of shame is in reverse order, so worst first;

 

                            A and E staff   % short   Vacancies

13^th Worst      

Ashford and St Peters               97        -17%        -16

 

23^rd worst

Heatherwood and

Wexham Park                         136         -12%         -17

 

34^th Worst

West Middlesex                        92        -10%           -9

 

53^rd Worst

Royal Surrey                              87          -8%           -7

 

90^th Worst

Epsom and St. Helier             182         +2%

 

100^th Worst

(out of 101! So nearly best in the country)

Frimley Park                           122          +9%

If you were to ask people locally to rank their hospital trusts, you would get a league table fairly similar to this.

If you were to work out quality of treatment/outcomes, I would guess it would be fairly similar to this too.

So, although my headline slogan is still for 10 consultants at St. Peter’s A and E, that’s not enough – we actually need 17 more staff and counting!

UGIMME 10 !

Neil Harris

(a don’t stop till you drop production)

Home: helpmesortoutstpeters.blogspot.com