You were told this ten days ago, perhaps? ;-)
> Colleagues
> A nursing colleague who works in a busy A&E dept. not a million miles
> from where I am employed was absolutely gobsmacked the other morning at
> 4.00am. She was busy in the dept. working flat out when she received a
> telephone call from the Director in administrative charge of the
> Directorship. He is not medically qualified and apparently he was
> logged in to the Hospital PIMS (Computer Registration) system. I
> understand that the individual can can access to the Hospital
> Registration Computer from the comfort of his home and in order to
> acheive the government targets had logged in to the A&E Registration
> Computer to "See how they were doing". In the comfort of his bedroom
> and with the relevant software he was concerned that a few patients
> were going to breech and hence affect the Trust's potential star rating.
> It is not a wind up but absolutely true. I would like to Canvass the
> opinions of the list before I can give the relevant advice. I was very
> concerned because patient confidentiality and "Big Brother". spring to
> mind. Also the Consultants who work in that dept. will have to be
> careful because it won't be long before the Directors Computer gives a
> bleep when the dept. gets busy and they will be dispatched into A&E to
> tackle the 4 hour targets.
> Am I old fashioned and out of touch or is the norm that is happening in
> most depts. up and down the breath of the country.
>
> Any comments and advice please
>
> Danny McGeehan
>
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More realistically, the new contract and the EWTD simply will not allow this without punitive
amounts of time off. I think you are having your leg pulled, Danny.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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