What would ya do then Big Tone? Please don't say "spend more money" because we are broke.
The truth is I don’t know because I am impotent to do anything; we all are. ‘They’, (the overpaid empty suits), use sound bites like being more ‘LEAN’ and empowering and listening to us. But they don’t! My screen saver makes me puke! It talks about how staff are valued, honestly and respect. It’s complete and utter bull $h1t.
So no matter what we suggest to the (mis)management, it falls on deaf ears. The difficulties and problems are made worse because they are so clueless and, IMHO, like rabbits caught in a car’s headlight. They are currently intending to move my small department to a different place which will make things
inordinately difficult and lead to yet more cock-ups! We are up in arms about it because we know the communication between us, (engineers), and other staff. (doctors, SLT’s, OT’s etc.), will turn to $h1t.
Because we have all complained to the mis-management it seems to have gone quiet and, wait for it, they have said we will "have a consultation" over the matter. Well excuse me, doesn’t a consultation come
before a decision has been made? Do you not try and get at the facts
before making a change? This is the kind of moronic managers we are dealing with whioh, to be fair, are just puppets to Government policy.
So, like I say, if you only knew what is really going on at grass roots level, ask those who are trying to do it. Take today for instance. I need to see patients in Stoke and Hereford this week but there is no car available. The reason is because we have about 20 people, (doctors, SLT’s, OT’s and Engineers again), all vying for one of just three available pool cars. Cars which they are looking to take away from us next year because of more budget restraints. (That’s yet another story)
I could honestly write a book on it but this is just the tip of the iceberg they are not telling you about. I have never had to apologise to patients and their family and carers so much in my life for things which we cannot do, or do promptly. Sometimes, more often lately, the people I see, whom are often terminally ill, die before I get to see and help them. Imagine how that makes me feel and, more importantly, how let down the family feels.
This is just some of what ‘they’ are not telling you in the media. I am so frustrated by it that I am
seriously contemplating going back to America, to a job I had there many years ago. When I joined the NHS in 1999 I was overjoyed because, being someone who likes to help others, it was
so much more than ‘just a job’ to me.
I have been blessed with good health, unlike my dear late brother, so to give something back was, and still is, something I am
very passionate about. But to see it going down the pan like it is, is truly heartbreaking for me and
all my work colleagues here; what’s left of them that is. (That’s
also another story).
It's funny how they always have money for ever more overpaid empty suits. Yes, that's what we need, more managers and usless consultants. That'll help matters...
