Comments on: Government has no idea how many people are dying from hospital infections

By: stephen streeton

stephen streeton — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:18:47 +0000

jean luc i totally agree that the government has no idea it happened to me and i do not get a lot of help

By: Welshcakes Limoncello

Welshcakes Limoncello — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:22:06 +0000

Terrifying.

By: Winchester Whisperer

Winchester Whisperer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:48 +0000

Do you think that the levels of infection will drop when more nurses have degrees?

By: Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:44:45 +0000

The fact that the government has ‘no idea’ is truly shocking.

By: disaffected

disaffected — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:53:31 +0000

With people to deal with like you Philipa I could understand all the nurses walking out then you would have to look after your family completely on your own ( though most women could easily cope with a case of tonsillitus at home on without going to hospital )

By: Ellee

Ellee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:15:47 +0000

I think cleanliness has improved in hospitals and staff are doing their very best. The comment Frugal Dougal makes about antibiotics is certainly alarming. It’s easier to draw teeth from an elephant than get a prescription for them from my GP.

The latest swine flu figures come out tomorrow. Watch this space!

By: Frugal Dougal

Frugal Dougal — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:11:42 +0000

My daughter, who’s diabetic, contracted MRSA when admitted on an emergency basis for treatment of a bad hypo. The only invasive procedures were taking bloods and putting an IV line in. All the staff were wonderful, I can’t fault them.

I fault misuse of antibiotics at a GP level, in particular locums who may miss out on training. I was horrified when a locum wanted to give me antib’s for a cough without a spit. In the end I took the prescription without taking it to the chemist’s. Eventually the cough went away.

By: Slowjoe

Slowjoe — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:47:54 +0000

@Disaffected:

Some perspective: I was in hospital last year (with a pennicilin allergy, if you ask).

The day shift on the ward were wonderful, like a dancing group or an elite military unit, changing every bed and sorting all medication for 30 odd people in a couple of hours in the morning.

OTOH, the night shift on the same ward was criminally negligent. There were three of them, and they remained in the nursing station for AT LEAST a minute after a call button was pressed. An elderly gent with a bad leg and diarrhea in the next bed needed assistance to get the loo. The day shift got him there before the inevitable accident. The night shift just let him shit himself in situ.

I had a tube in my arm for intraveinous drugs, and the dressing came off about an hour before change of shift, so I rang for assitance to replace it. The guy who came over half an hour later didn’t actually listen to me, because he remained on the phone for the duration of my conversation with him. Then he left the shift without coming over with a dressing, and without telling someone on the next shift.

And the fact is, your daughter, however dilligent and overworked, is judged on outcomes across the NHS. If she doesn’t like it, and you don’t like it, that’s unfortunate. Objecting to facts makes you look foolish. The NHS is killing people. That’s your daughter’s employer. Those are facts.

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By: Philipa

Philipa — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:43:04 +0000

@Disaffected – I understand that you love your daughter but I make no personal attack on her and am merely telling the truth so please ‘get real’ yourself and stop the personal attack on me. Thank you.

Your daughter is employed to work there, she doesn’t have to. I had to care for my son as no one else would, and I wouldn’t need to be fed if the complaining high and mighty bloody nurses did their bloody job instead of standing round bitching to each other about their lot in life. If they don’t like it, hey, they can leave. The patients can’t.