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NHS confusing public by using 'gobbledygook'

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Northerner

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Imagine the scene. Up and down the country, local NHS leaders are crowded into meeting rooms discussing information transfers and ambulatory care, when someone jumps up and shouts "I've had enough of sticky toffee puddings".

Confused? You're not the only one. The language being used by the health service is simply gobbledygook, says the Plain English Campaign (PEC).

Steve Jenner, the campaign's spokesman, said the health service was riddled with "jargon" when it comes to explaining anything from the closure of hospital services to major incidents.

And he even believes the NHS may be doing this on purpose.

"If you use impenetrable language it means the public has no clue what is going on. I can't help thinking that suits the NHS sometimes," he said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39341411
 
bankers were accused of the same thing a few years back
 
Northerner said:
And he even believes the NHS may be doing this on purpose.

"If you use impenetrable language it means the public has no clue what is going on. I can't help thinking that suits the NHS sometimes," he said.
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They definatley don't want us to know. Did anyone whatch Yes Minister?
 
'What are your BMs looking like recently ?'

My what, Nurse? Do Boehringer Mannheim even still make BG test strips in this century?

Yet they still use that term - and I'd be willing to bet that no-one outside a hospital ever used a BM strip in the first place - cos Glucometers were ONLY used in hospital D clinics - and mine didn't have one - when I was diagnosed 45 years ago.

Blimey - even HbA1c wasn't yet used - Glycosulated Haemoglobin was the name of the test. Well they soon dropped that - so why cling to BMs ?
 
It's an ongoing obfuscation situation! 😱🙄
 
This sort of language was the norm in the civil service of the nineties, spawned by management consultants brought in to improve efficiency. It's a copy of American verbosity. Much noise, meaning nothing. It's the mode of speech of people who haven't got a proper job.
 
At this moment in time - with the greatest possible respect - whilst thinking outside to box in a blue sky - I have long regarded it as an explicit implied term of my contact of employment with my employer and my personal and specific Job Description, to both unremittingly and also with malice aforethought, to extract the urine out of any individual with a proclivity in the direction of interminal usage of such meaningless bollards.

Can you tell the group your feelings on the subject matter under discussion?

o_O
 
trophywench said:
At this moment in time - with the greatest possible respect - whilst thinking outside to box in a blue sky - I have long regarded it as an explicit implied term of my contact of employment with my employer and my personal and specific Job Description, to both unremittingly and also with malice aforethought, to extract the urine out of any individual with a proclivity in the direction of interminal usage of such meaningless bollards.

Can you tell the group your feelings on the subject matter under discussion?

o_O
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Hell Jenny, I thought I was back at work there! :D
 
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It always amuses me to be put on a care pathway with a broken leg :confused: .I still think of myself as a JoD - juvenile onset diabetes, I always wanted to go to the MoD clinic as a kid- Maturity onset diabetes - it sounded more cool 😉
 
Daughter was wanting to book a day off work, and emailed her boss ( sorry, line manager, probably) hoping her request wouldn't cause any 'scanning resource issues'. For goodness sake, I said, reading over her shoulder, why don't you just put 'there won't be enough people to do the scanning'? Oh no, she said, can't put that, he wouldn't understand anything that wasn't in management speak.
( that's not as off topic as it seems, company she works for deals a lot with the NHS)
 
Well, we all wanted to be Mods - the fashions were far nicer for girls. However - the attraction of parkas, chromed side panels and multiple mirrors, fox-tails etc notwithstanding - can't say I ever felt the need to instigate or participate in Bellum (ie pitched battle that Homer et al liked writing about) with a Rocker .....
 
If you're ill in hospital it's hard enough to try to understand medical terms without this crazy talk as well.
 
For my job I have to deal with digital radiology imaging files, and the nomenclature is really confusing, like Accession number, Laterality, Modality, Issuer of Patient ID, Issuer of Patient ID, so on... The technical jargon tends to be confusing for the people outside. If you mix managers, doctors and software developer you gea messy blob of terms...
;-)
 
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