This is appauling care in the comunity !

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
31/01/2011 13:00

This is terrible and being in hospital is no better either. My Mother died of pressure sores and septicaemia having been in hospital for just a very short time.Our reaction was WHAT in this day-and-age ! Hope this report makes the care sector wake up and go back to the old days of real care....outrageous.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352015/Damning-report-exposes-rising-number-elderly-killed-neglect-care-homes.html





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girne 29


Joined: 06/12/2007
Posts: 1488

Message Posted:
31/01/2011 13:36

! Hope this report makes the care sector wake up and go back to the old days of real care....outrageous.



By the old days I take you mean when wards were run by nurses and sisters,when cleaners were employed by the hospitals and not by companies ,often foreign ,who were interested only in the profit the cleaning contract could make.

When administrators were not multiplying to enforce more 'initiatives'.

Dont hold your breath,what with the latest plans to de nationalise the health service.



In defense of the present NHS . A friend of ours is a community nurse ,and a while back was talking about the care in a lot of private nursing homes . She was saying how her work load had increased due to the number of call outs to nursing homes to attend to patients because the home did not have the staff or quality to do that which they were contracted to.

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
31/01/2011 13:52

In the "Old Days" the family looked after the elderly as they still do in Turkey and most muslim and many other countries.



Hospital care for the elderly in the UK seems to be poor unless you pay, sorry about your loss spider.

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
31/01/2011 14:21

Just a question so do not jump down my throat!



If this is the state of care in the UK then why are all the qualifications needed and what worth have they got?



Apart from the obviouse that if you have not employed fully qualified staff then you can not operate that is.

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
31/01/2011 14:34

Thank you Pugwash..In the old days my mother was a nursing auxiliary the people who had time to help the nursing staff, who would sit with the elderly and help feed,wash and assist them.She loved her job for years and to think at the end of our days this important part of giving is lost and they are left to lay in their beds too weak to even ring the bells.Bed sores should be a thing of the past.....Oh yes the all have rights to drink, but time given to them all is lost.



and if you have money for care its of little help, with reports coming out like this with facts.





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