Him wrote:
Spot on Coddy, when I worked for the NHS I spent a few weeks working in the mental health hospital at York. The staff were complaining then about not enough beds and how funding was only ever prioritised for frontline, "regular" hospital care. But the biggest complaint was how patients they knew should really be an in-patient were being released (or never admitted in the first place) to care in the community. And then that care in the community was woeful.
A good mate of mine took voluntary redundancy/early retirement from the HNS at the beginning of the year, after getting sick and tired of being pi
ssed around and undervalued over the last few years. He was an experienced mental health nursing sister. He did some agency work for a while after leaving, getting paid £350 a shift, often working at the hospital he'd just left. But even that got to him in the end and now he's doing a couple of days a week for a local spice-supply company.
When the coalition crow about all the managers they got shut of from the NHS, they conveniently forget that many we -re-employed on a contract basis, often at greater cost. But that money comes from a different account and is effectively off-balance sheet and is therefore viewed as a saving
