Ray
I have been totally opposed to this nonsense since it was mooted approx 18 months ago. It is totally unacheivable and like you our dept. was hitting targets of 90% last year and we are now going backwards and as low as 70 and 80%. The reasons are twofold, lack of beds and excess demand on the service. Unfortunately the nursing staff are now being bullied to prevent patients breaching as they are being leaned on from higher management.
Over the last 2 weeks our colleagues in primary care bailed out and we were doing a lot of their work. NHS hasn't helped matters either.
The sad thing is that the dept. has advisors presumably from our speciality who must represent us to a certain extent and tell HMG what they want to hear. This I find is the most difficult thing to comprehend.
Anyway it can't and won't work.
Danny McGeehan
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