The Real NHS
Oct 3rd 2012, 8:43 am
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Re: The Real NHS
If you peruse the recreation and leisure literature from 30 or so years ago, it was full of predictions that technology and automation would make our jobs easier and we'd all be taking lseisurely 3-day or 4-day "weekends". The reality has been that we are simply expected to be more productive in our 5 days (ha! Can't remember my last 5-day work week), that we are employed part-time to do a full week's work, that we now work on the train to work, via our laptops and smart phones, and/or that fewer peple are employed to achieve what more people were achieving before all this technology made our tasks easier.
Oh, and I forgot one more thing - we now have to spend 50% of our time writing reports and evaluations and blue-sky thinking strategies instead of actually getting on with the job.
NHS (I just put that in there so the post wasn't off-topic!)
Oh, and I forgot one more thing - we now have to spend 50% of our time writing reports and evaluations and blue-sky thinking strategies instead of actually getting on with the job.
NHS (I just put that in there so the post wasn't off-topic!)
It would be interesting to see how much more of our health/education budgets are now spent on the additional support staff required to undertake audits/evaluations etc than 10 years ago?
Oct 3rd 2012, 8:49 am
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Mind you, how come I never see any of these extra employed people when I'm in the supermarket spending my meager wedge?
Anyway, back to the NHS.
Oct 3rd 2012, 9:13 am
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Im talking about American Supermarkets and DIY stores, all the large chains have a minimum of 4 self check outs, many have 6 or 8 and with one person to watch over the 4-6-8 customers, add it up, its Thousands of jobs... Shops in the UK are doing it too, Im not sure about other countries but I doubt they would not jump on board, its Free Labour...
Oct 3rd 2012, 12:51 pm
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Re: The Real NHS
Im talking about American Supermarkets and DIY stores, all the large chains have a minimum of 4 self check outs, many have 6 or 8 and with one person to watch over the 4-6-8 customers, add it up, its Thousands of jobs... Shops in the UK are doing it too, Im not sure about other countries but I doubt they would not jump on board, its Free Labour...
Oct 3rd 2012, 12:52 pm
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Hmm, With Part Time Working being the new Full time working,let's hope the 2,200 who just got made redundant with JJB Sports can all get jobs with Aldi.
Mind you, how come I never see any of these extra employed people when I'm in the supermarket spending my meager wedge?
Anyway, back to the NHS.
Mind you, how come I never see any of these extra employed people when I'm in the supermarket spending my meager wedge?
Anyway, back to the NHS.
Oct 3rd 2012, 1:15 pm
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Re: The Real NHS
Im talking about American Supermarkets and DIY stores, all the large chains have a minimum of 4 self check outs, many have 6 or 8 and with one person to watch over the 4-6-8 customers, add it up, its Thousands of jobs... Shops in the UK are doing it too, Im not sure about other countries but I doubt they would not jump on board, its Free Labour...
Oct 3rd 2012, 1:25 pm
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Why?
Have you not heard who has been made redundant this week and who has announced job placements, or was you post about supermarkets a stab in the dark?
Or was it the bit about my meager funds
Hopefully after the cost of the automated till is recovered the same outlets will reflect the lower overheads in their pricing structure. But I won't hold my breath.
Have you not heard who has been made redundant this week and who has announced job placements, or was you post about supermarkets a stab in the dark?
Or was it the bit about my meager funds
Hopefully after the cost of the automated till is recovered the same outlets will reflect the lower overheads in their pricing structure. But I won't hold my breath.
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Oct 3rd 2012, 4:51 pm
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Re: The Real NHS
Why?
Have you not heard who has been made redundant this week and who has announced job placements, or was you post about supermarkets a stab in the dark?
Or was it the bit about my meager funds
Hopefully after the cost of the automated till is recovered the same outlets will reflect the lower overheads in their pricing structure. But I won't hold my breath.
Have you not heard who has been made redundant this week and who has announced job placements, or was you post about supermarkets a stab in the dark?
Or was it the bit about my meager funds
Hopefully after the cost of the automated till is recovered the same outlets will reflect the lower overheads in their pricing structure. But I won't hold my breath.
I doubt prices dropped, but how will we ever know, Back to the subject at hand, The NHS...
Oct 3rd 2012, 4:55 pm
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Oct 3rd 2012, 5:23 pm
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It's likely they weren't nurses mate, they have them dressed looking like nurses, but they have trained up a lot of auxiliary staff to do jobs like this, they are called care assistants, they also take blood, put canullars in, do ESGs etc, it's saved millions for the hospitals, but it means there's far less front line nurses.
Oct 3rd 2012, 5:30 pm
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Interesting newspiece recently on the overprescription of benzos and sleeping pills:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinio...cle3554280.ece
- In the US, this can be explained by backhanders from the drug companies, but in the NHS, I wonder whether it is just a simpler way to get the patient in and out within the allocated 10 minutes per patient visit?
Although you can't really question the accuracy of the statistics on number of prescriptions, I haven't see any systematic evidence supporting the widespread addiction and serious side effects described here.
Makes good newsprint, I suppose.
- Sorry, just realised you need a subscription to the Times in order to read the full article. Much as I am reluctant to post anything from the Daily Wail, they also published an article on the subject, as did the Express:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...cted-to-valium
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...phie%2BBorland
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinio...cle3554280.ece
- In the US, this can be explained by backhanders from the drug companies, but in the NHS, I wonder whether it is just a simpler way to get the patient in and out within the allocated 10 minutes per patient visit?
Although you can't really question the accuracy of the statistics on number of prescriptions, I haven't see any systematic evidence supporting the widespread addiction and serious side effects described here.
Makes good newsprint, I suppose.
- Sorry, just realised you need a subscription to the Times in order to read the full article. Much as I am reluctant to post anything from the Daily Wail, they also published an article on the subject, as did the Express:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...cted-to-valium
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...phie%2BBorland
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Oct 3rd 2012, 9:39 pm
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Re: The Real NHS
I'm not saying every hospital is like this, or every area, but there has been a huge shift in this direction, so the wife says.
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Oct 3rd 2012, 9:51 pm
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That's grand, my sister is an auxiliary nurse on the "bank" and before she graduated my wife was a care assistant. I suppose the only evidence that can be produced is to walk down a ward and see who is doing what.