[Closed] Stafford Hospital- FACK!!!!

I live in Stafford, FacK, FacK, FacK,and FacK

17 people died in one day alone

seems most of this cock up has been caused by managers manipulating targets set by the government. Targets should not be placed in healthcare as they will always be manipulated by hospitals to meet them- seems the 4hr wait in a+e was manipulated here to the detriment of patient care- another nice one by nu-labour. i qualified when new labour came to power and was really hopeful they would improve the NHS for all - staff and patients alike. sadly things have got worse not better through constant and often unecessary change and obsession with targets. It seems now we are treating targets not patients which leaves me as a medic completely disillusioned.

There are a lot of good people who work there, My hope is that they do not all get tarred with the same brush.... AE has always been dire, especially at the weekends... My Mrs had an op a few years ago and the care she had was great, and so was the post care she received.

A drastic policy in freeing up hospital beds...

The CE in charge of this is overdue a falcon punch.

[The act of accelerating and engulfing your arm with flames then punching an unsuspecting person to their mortal doom with such enormous force that a fissure in the space-time continuum occurs, creating an energy pulse so great that the ****ing universe divides by zero and collapses in on itself].

[b]FALCON PUNCH!![/b]

The revelation that someone was sat waiting for 4hrs in A&E with an open/exposed bone break with no treatment is unacceptable though.

Will the Health Sec sack the person in charge as in the baby P case I wonder?

desf - Member
Will the Health Sec sack the person in charge as in the baby P case I wonder?

I'm sure the "government" will be doing "everything in our power" to resolve the situation.....

As in, **** all.

As said above, targets are not the key to healthcare. Health + Care. Those are the two words that are key here. Not administration. Not league tables. Not "Choice". We, as users of the NHS, don't want choice. We want a good, clean hospital where our health can be cared for. It seems that in many places, the only choice is to go private if you want that.

There will be other hospitals and staff , shitting themselves tonight , at the thought they well loose their pension and cushy jobs, in the nhs, being paid as managers, and they havent any idea what a patient looks like or the treatment they need, as long as they get to go to meetings and fill quotas, and save money to WASTE on some bloody stupid project.

I specialise in smoking cessation. Everything I HAVE to do is all based around the PCT acheiving a quit-target for the year. What I WANT to do is help people live better, healthier lives and feel good about themselves. I really like what I do but feel I could be more effective without the burden of a target hanging over me.

It's fair enough that I have to display an effectiveness in what I'm doing, but healthcare targets are rubbish!

Target driven culture is so wrong from private business to government, targets are OK if they are well thought out but most are an arbitrary number in a given short space of time. We have seen it with the banks and the NHS. In many businesses short term targets are met at the neglect of long term customer / patient / consumer and employee value.

I work for Networkrail,& since they took over its all been about
targets, with little or no intrest in whats happening on the gound.
So long as they've got some one to blame. which is someone lower down
the ranks. The poeple who make these targets up get bigger bonuses & pay
and have no direct responsibility & or accountability.
It's all down to new labour I've tried to like them,
but they are all irredeemable fack wits.
If they spent more time running the economy, instead of telling us how
to live,

I went there for a medical last year. 😯

CaptainFlashheart - Member

Health + Care. Those are the two words that are key here. Not administration. Not league tables. Not "Choice". We, as users of the NHS, don't want choice. We want a good, clean hospital where our health can be cared for. It seems that in many places, the only choice is to go private if you want that.

Hallelujah, praise the lord..... Please forward this to them in charge, Its what all the docs and nurses I know have been trying to tell them all along!!!

Scruff is a doctor or sumfink at Stafford hospital. The surgeon who did my hernia last year and caused me to miss the entire summer and be off work for 8 weeks with infections and follow up operations is based there too. Scruff said the canteen is pretty good there though

Scruff with a scalpel...???

he walks around with a stethescope an stuff, proper security badge and everything. I dont think he has an actual job there though, just a totty spotter

Did you actually see the surgeon who did your op or do you think it was Dr Scruff who cut you open....?

Brilliant headline in the independant...

[url] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/the-hospital-of-death-1647348.html [/url]

The hospital.... of DEATH!!!!!

I spent a week on the Urology ward at Stafford General a few years back. It was possibly the most miserable week of my life, surrounded by the nearly dead of both sexes (it being a mixed ward), many of them moaning and sobbing through the day and night and on top of that it absolutely stunk.

I wasn't even in for a Urology problem (dislocated shoulder with spinal complications), its just is was the only bed available apparently.

Its what convinced me to get private healthcare. I may end up in an NHS hospital but if I have to stay it won't be on some poxy mixed ward that stinks of p!ss.