NURSING AND EDUCATION PLATFORM

Debates about care in the uk, fuelled by the Francis report, focus upon the NHS. Yet by 2014 all NHS hospitals in England, will be foundation Trusts which are very different from NHS hospuitals. Much care is given also within other areas such as private/ charity owned care homes, private prisons, the community, hospices. All issues raised with Francis report, do not apply to other areas eg  care homes. By considering all areas, we can identify underlying themes such as staffing thus...

October 2013, terrible news of Orchard View care home, that was owned by large company Four Seasons. Home closed 2011. Thanks to admin Lisa who informed police. Majority of staff were it seems , from overseas. Many fear complaining and work for less (book commodity of care). Registered manager will be responsible- but we know huge dilemmas exist when regional manager etc restricts eg booking agency. few would inform the inspector of this --. Time we supported them to do so- as many suggest. C...

Accountability is a merry- go- round.

It should not be , if everybody kept records and was honest.

Consider incidents.

Patient falls from hoist. carers not been trained., Carers from overseas, Cultural reasons why do not ask. In care home, manager is REGISTERED. Not ward manager.

Short staffed- has manager reported it? Who to? errors etc occur--. Blame Nurse? Carer? Manager? Health minister? Not in private sector.Yet we march towards the private sector-- govt not resp...

Still we hear, the sole reason for poor care is low staffing. Of course major unions may state that to " keep nurse members". Yes low staffing does create horrendous problems eg residents not bathed in care home or hospital, errors drugs or whatever, overlooked aspects of care or delays and stressed staff.Iin care homes, the manager is REGISTERED thus responsible . see article on this web re this.

Yet refs and CQC report support that poor care is NOT always due to low staff numbers as d...

mailonline describes (Duell 2013)  a case of 100 year old resident who fell from an insecure hoist. Overseas carers had language difficulties and no training re that sling. See book the commodity of care. First full analysis of such issues in nursing. Great need for NMc/ govt to review training and English language. Remember- attitudes differ between culters within the same  country or from overseas, which HS executive supports in Duell 2013.How many staff from overseas would dare t...

So J Hunt announced CQC to be independent (1.10 13). What does this mean? Who at present appoints CQC board members? Seems to be DH and privy council IF they become idependent- does this mean private/ charity /RCN run?? Whose benefit will this serve? Things may be hidden to an even greater degree. Who will then monitor the CQC, and will that too- be independent? Is this  a means of the Govt abdicating responsibility?

"Listen to the voices"- of the ordinary people. 

NHS w...

so jeremy Hunt is to send 50 Drs and nurses to Havard University, costing 9million plus (The SUN). USA and other countries have similar problems to the UK. The structure of healthcare also differs, in addition to cultural attitudes. Will this further promote the elite (a major problem in nursing)  and medicalisation of care? There are different types of poor care in different areas of care eg coronary care or old people. see book the commodity of care for further analysis. there is no qu...

This really is getting juicy now. I have been banned from webs sites and groups for mentioning this (The commodity of care) book. Regardless of who has written it, the information needs to be out there. Nobody wants alternative view points it seems. Surely offering your research results anyway, may too be classed as advertising?? If anybody else has the honour of ever being banned , please let me know. Myself I gain nothing from this only strangulation of any work progression. This has vast i...

So Mr Gove, education Minister, suddenly realises poor care exists in childrens homes ie children within them are extremely vulnerable.. Children's homes echoes the privatisation of many care homes- some owned by private equity trusts (see article by Lenin Nightingale on wideshut or at rear of book "The commodity of care"). Yet he finds, info is restricted re children's homes-- due to "confidentiality"- this means nobody can ordinarily access the home or the info. Who restricts the info?? The...

Interesting. If you do not sing the same song or make the same point, you are not in the club/ the box or on the committee. You may be but may be ostracised or may remove yourself.

How does this fit with academia? Surely academics in all fields, have altenative points to raise or discuss ?

It is well known that they who 'progress', sing in agreement. The work of those who do not, is often blocked.

What is it that people fear? Is it loss of job, loss of promotion, fear of rid...