treeve
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I am hearing an increasing and alarming series of 'hospital rules' that a hospital is banning x,y and z for health or 'HSE' reasons.
For example,
1] a hospital did not allow Christmas Decoratations, tree or lights for reasons of HSE dominant rulings, whereby the staff who would be necessary to place these were not qualified under 'Regulations' for such work on ladders, or in electrical work.
2] Christmas Carollers (a nominated choir) were not allowed to give performances to patients due to health risks posed by so many people entering, and for reasons of insurance on the occupants of the buildings.
3] The rulings on staff car parking (and I do not refer to pen pushers and seat warmers, I refer to nurses and doctors) are archaic, insane and draconian.
4] I have just been informed of another insane and unreasoned vague directive that has ruled that ties are a health hazard and are not to be worn by doctors. In the same breath, it has been decreed that as a security measure, lanyards with identity cards should be worn. This is all quite insane, as the reasons for health problems in hospitals are clear to me as it all began when the cleaning contracts became private and what with maniacal pressure for Trusts to be self reliant and for a hospital top be shown to produce results agains the respective performance requirments, cleaning has become a minority event; recent highlighting though has now brought in the attention of another spotlight, and so all manner of wild sources are being quoted as the 'source'. The fact of the matter IS that hospitals used to be a Real National Health building and staff, and they were, whatever anyone pontificates now, run by those wonderful people, MATRONS. Authority, discipline, cleanliness, order, smartness...... Bring back REAL Matrons and bring back REAL hospitals. Drop the conveyor belt process and kick out the accountants, with those managers who delight in their power but without conscious medical knowledge. Why is it that managers are allowed to wear ties, when doctors are not?
I have a friend in an extremely high position in The National Health, I may be pressed to write to her on this, but it rather offends the nature of our friendship. Can anyone offer any pointers as to the justification and 'chapter and verse' of such demoralising actions and petty mindedness?
For example,
1] a hospital did not allow Christmas Decoratations, tree or lights for reasons of HSE dominant rulings, whereby the staff who would be necessary to place these were not qualified under 'Regulations' for such work on ladders, or in electrical work.
2] Christmas Carollers (a nominated choir) were not allowed to give performances to patients due to health risks posed by so many people entering, and for reasons of insurance on the occupants of the buildings.
3] The rulings on staff car parking (and I do not refer to pen pushers and seat warmers, I refer to nurses and doctors) are archaic, insane and draconian.
4] I have just been informed of another insane and unreasoned vague directive that has ruled that ties are a health hazard and are not to be worn by doctors. In the same breath, it has been decreed that as a security measure, lanyards with identity cards should be worn. This is all quite insane, as the reasons for health problems in hospitals are clear to me as it all began when the cleaning contracts became private and what with maniacal pressure for Trusts to be self reliant and for a hospital top be shown to produce results agains the respective performance requirments, cleaning has become a minority event; recent highlighting though has now brought in the attention of another spotlight, and so all manner of wild sources are being quoted as the 'source'. The fact of the matter IS that hospitals used to be a Real National Health building and staff, and they were, whatever anyone pontificates now, run by those wonderful people, MATRONS. Authority, discipline, cleanliness, order, smartness...... Bring back REAL Matrons and bring back REAL hospitals. Drop the conveyor belt process and kick out the accountants, with those managers who delight in their power but without conscious medical knowledge. Why is it that managers are allowed to wear ties, when doctors are not?
I have a friend in an extremely high position in The National Health, I may be pressed to write to her on this, but it rather offends the nature of our friendship. Can anyone offer any pointers as to the justification and 'chapter and verse' of such demoralising actions and petty mindedness?
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