Are the patients the problem?

[Northerner]

On unveiling the package of measures in the government's response to the Stafford Hospital public inquiry, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he was confident the changes would ensure problems on such a scale would not slip under the radar again.

A clearer system of rating hospitals and better regulation of managers and healthcare assistants, he argued, would ensure greater accountability, while better training for nurses could create a culture of compassionate care.

But in some ways the changes ignored the elephant in the room: the changing nature of the patient population.

It is an open secret that hospitals in the 21st Century are full of patients that should not be there.

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[trophywench]

Hell bent on keeping people at home come what may, they have neglected to provide the support people need in order to do that. Time after time you hear that the mobile care staff, as they only are allowed 15 mins or something ridiculous with each person, saying against they've made the person a cuppa there's no time to get him up, let alone washed and dressed.

 

[Northerner]

Hell bent on keeping people at home come what may, they have neglected to provide the support people need in order to do that. Time after time you hear that the mobile care staff, as they only are allowed 15 mins or something ridiculous with each person, saying against they've made the person a cuppa there's no time to get him up, let alone washed and dressed.

It's like the situation with diabetes - so many far more expensive hospital admissions and operations instead of spending the money much better on keeping people out of hospital. Instead, they're cutting support to councils so that services that would help people stay at home are being cut back just when more are needed It's not that money is not being spent, it's how it's being spent