Nurses at an NHS Accident and Emergency department have been caught on film laughing about how they weren't hitting targets after they admitted one of their patients had already waited 46 hours for care. The shocking state of NHS care was revealed after a Channel 4 Dispatches reporter went undercover at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital's A&E, posing as a trainee healthcare assistant.
I think a reporter doing actual undercover work is more shocking than anything he found...
...the programme's footage left an expert in disbelief at the 'unacceptable' practices.
I guess they managed to find a reporter who hadn't had any experience of the NHS, the lucky chap. No-one who has will be even surprised.
The shocking programme showed:
- Sick patients waiting overnight in the 'Fit to Sit' area, with a suspected stroke case sitting in the waiting room for 24 hours.
- A man who was forced to urinate on a trolley in full view of 30 staff, patients and members of the public.
- A dementia patient who ripped out their cannula and left a room covered in their blood when they were supposed to have been watched over.
- A makeshift ward set up on the X-ray corridor which is isolated from doctors and nurses and which has no sinks and insufficient plug sockets.
- Shocking levels of hygiene, with dirty bedpans left by staff without being cleaned up.
- Patients forced to wait up for up to four and a half hours in ambulance queues.
- Some ambulance crews who cannot wait just dump their patients in the 'Ambulance Reception Area' without a proper handover.
A spokesperson for the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, said: 'As with other hospitals, our Trust is facing significant challenges with urgent and emergency care.'
You could always sell some 'art' to fund improvements. Or stop having to pay out huge settlements because you seem to employ Srevie Wonder as a surgeon.
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