If I end up writing in a very quick and typo filled manner please forgive me as I read this tripe on the number 10 webshite, and frankly my head is about to explode. So, rage factor 10, here we go... (itallics by the webshite, bold by Nursing Student, legal proceedings by some fancy arsed solicitor)
A fuckwit says:
The Government believe nurse leaders should have the freedom to determine their own staffing ratios according to local conditions. They are best placed to make decisions based on many complex factors, not the least of which is that health care today is a team-based activity, and patients are best served when the staff involved in their care work together to meet their needs.
Well, you cuntimint, if that is your view, then why in the name of steam powered buggery did you take this power away from the ward managers and leave it so that there is a staffing decided on not by the ward manager but by a computerised programme that refuses to consider maternity leave, sickness and calculate 2% level for staffing eh? The nurse on the ward is the one who knows how many staff are needed, no bugger else matey boy. Why do you try and fob off what was a damn good idea by posting a response which is in direct conflict with the current front line situation? Is it due to the sheer ineptitude of the Nursing profession, or more to do with a government that would have us believe that video piracy is the sole cause of terrorism, and not a short sighted and badly misguided foreign policy?
The Government's view is that imposing minimal levels for nursing staff to patient ratios could be detrimental to patient care. The number of staff at any one time will vary according to skill mix, clinical practice and local factors. Furthermore, the introduction of any minimal level may be seen as being the norm, with NHS Trusts no longer aiming for an optimal level.
Wrong again fuckface! The current trend is for there to be unsafe ratio's of nurse:patients and this is harming the patients. There is no evidence to back your claims. In fact, current best evidence suggests there are better patient outcomes with set nurse patient ratio's. Oh, and before you pull a fast one, you slimy lot will not be pulling the wool over my eye's with these ratio's either. I have seen how there have been critical care bed's with their enforced ratio's closed because of there being a cut in nursing post's, so don't think for one minute you would get away with that. I've got my eye on you sunshine. As for skill mix, what bloody mix of skills? You have robbed nurse's of job's and made an under staffed, low moral militant workforce. Nice job, dickhead!
Workforce planning is a matter for local determination as local workforce planners are best placed to asses the health care needs of their local population. The Department of Health continues to ensure that frameworks are in place to enable effective local workforce planning.
Bullshit you have culled nurse's back to the bone nationally. The only frameworks which are there is to have a way of the top echelon's of NHS management being able to blame front line staff for your screw-up's!
Since 1997, the NHS has seen record levels of investment - from £34.7billion in 1997/98 to over £90billion in 2007/08 to £110billion by 2010/11 - and a period of significant expansion in the workforce. The number of qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors has increased by almost 80,000 to over 398,000 in England. The last few years has seen more nurses working in the NHS than ever before.
Which sodding planet are you on pal? Take a look out the window and look at the real world. The figure's you suggest while being a nice arbatory figure are a great work of fiction as the only finance that matters is the ruddy black hole the size of Belgium which has been created. As for the record numbers, there are now less nurse's on the front line, and new graduating nurse's being left on the unemployment scrapheap. Take a look around you, and if you try and say that anything I have just said is rubbish, then I will call you the biggest egotist that ever bleeding well lived.
This unprecedented growth in the workforce has been the key to driving down waiting times and improving the delivery of treatment and care across the NHS.
No, your misguided and dangerous obsession with target's have lead to what amount's to a STATISTICAL reduction in times, though as a great man one said "Statistic's are like bikini's. It's not what they reveal what is important, more what they cover up".
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