Colleagues
I do aplologise profusely if I abuse the list and I do appreciate that this posting is not acaedemic but I feel I must canvass the opinion of my esteemed colleagues.
Over the past week or two the Senior Staff are being regularly called in to work in the early hours of the morning. The scenario is 2.30 am and the phone rings to say that there are about 5 patients who are about to breach the 4 hour deadline and would we come in and help out. The nursing staff are effectively being bullied to comply to the rigis policy when there are basically insufficient numbers of staff and beds.
The NHS is now so strapped for cash as it has been spent largely on number crunchers sending in endless sit reps to the powers that be. We cannot employ more docs and the numbers are increasing at 7% per annum.
It appears to me that we are even going to be squeezed even more to acheive the impossible. The SHO's can go off duty at the end of their shift but we have a 24 hour responsibility.
Is it just me that has been unlucky or are there more of my Senior Colleagues getting the early morning missives. BTW when I go off shift at the end of a busy day I do feel very knackered and the prospects of more out of hours work does not fill me with great optimism.
Don't get me wrong if someone is scaped off the M6 I would be the first out of my bed. The prospect of filling in gaps for the next 12 years when everyone is tucked up in bed depresses me.
Best wishes
Danny McGeehan
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