Tag Archives: hospital
Bedsores: the treatable killer
Bedsores: the treatable killer
Bedsores are caused in the main by neglectful nursing care for the bed-ridden. Why are we allowing it to happen?
7:30AM BST 11 Jul 2011
The nurse pulled back the covers and I recoiled instinctively. It wasn’t so much the sight of the raw flesh that made me feel ill as the smell.
“It must have been like this for months,” said the nurse. “How can they claim to be caring for this poor woman when they leave her to develop sores like this?”
A musical message to save children’s heart services at Royal Brompton
A brilliant video, please save the Royal Brompton.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsIFqLQRff8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
http://www.nhs.uk/Services/Hospitals/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=1523
Plans under way to tackle ageism in the NHS
Plans under way to tackle ageism in the NHS
As evidence accumulates that elderly people suffer worse treatment than the young on the NHS, the Government and health watchdogs have devised a series of plans to tackle the problem.
By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent
7:00AM BST 22 Jun 2011
They range from making age discrimination illegal to carrying out spot checks on hospital geriatric wards.
However it has been claimed that the problem is down to the culture in the health service and the attitude of staff, and that new laws and more rigorous checks may only increase bureaucracy rather than improving care.
