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> From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Helen Deborah Vecht
> Sent: 12 August 2006 13:42
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> Subject: Re: I think we have this all wrong
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> Adrian Fogarty <[log in to unmask]>typed
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> > Agreed, have thought this myself for years Rowley, having
> "grown up"
> > in the system you describe. Things were definitely more
> efficient in
> > those days. Now nurses object to being seen or treated as
> > "handmaidens", whereas in reality we were simply functioning as a
> > highly efficient team. And I agree with Helen. Some ENPs can be
> > painfully slow, at least when compared with an experienced middle
> > grade or consultant.
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> Rowley didn't mention physically bringing the patient from
> the waiting area to tthe consulting area. This was one of
> those non-medical tasks with which I had increasing
> difficulty over the last few months I worked.
>
> I suspect the NHS might have had my services for rather
> longer if I had not been tied down to doing various
> non-medical tasks in a department with pitifully few staff
> for its throughput.
The problem is non clinical staff = non earners
Which means clinicla staff spend increasing ammounts of time doing
portering and A+C tasks
Yet departments still give up their dedicated portering and cut A+C
staff numbers - regardless of what anyone inside or outside
thedepartment says
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