"Over half of NHS Trusts need to improve"

[Annabella]

The Healthcare Commission (an independent regulatory board) has today released the results of the Annual Healthcheck - and assessment that covers Quality of Care and Use of Resources (financial). It's a new system which uses a lot of information from different sources to decide whether a healthcare provider is "Excellent", "Good", "Fair", or "Weak".

https://annualhealthcheckratings.healthcarecommission.org.uk/annualhealthcheckratings.cfm

Out of interest...

What are your views on these results?
What do they mean to you?


I've got very strong veiws regarding this new assessment process and would be interested in everyone elses.
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[Dom]

Another pointless attempt by the government to quantify everything and distance themselves from the problem. One that they are the root cause of, but it is infinitely nicer to blame individual hospitals for.

It's a shame they couldn't just say "it's not our fault, honest" rather than wasting millions on setting up a healthcare commission.
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[Kris]

Anyone else see BLiar on the news last night, getting tongue tied speaking in the Commons?

He let slip that there will be further cuts to the NHS.


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[Kris]

Anyone else see BLiar on the news last night, getting tongue tied speaking in the Commons?

He let slip that there will be further cuts to the NHS.


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[Barry_M2]

NHS is a disaster.

Hence why I pay for me and my family to go private. Pitty I cant do anything about the fact that I'm still paying for it out of my wages.

I pay for a health service I dont use, and also for a state pension I'm probably likely to never see a penny from. Oh how I wish I could cancel my payments to them, I dont like having money stolen from me by the government.
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[Annabella]

[Barry_M2]

I have no confidence in them at all, from the local doctors (5 of them) who failed over a two week period to spot that my then 3 year old daughter had pnumonia on one of her lungs and was in agony with it.

Right through to the doctors who took over a week to diagnose my uncle with a curable cancer which he infact died from just two weeks ago.

The fact that all my local hospitals are now scheduled to close fully, or departments that we will be most likely to need.

I could go on, and on, and on, and on......

I couldn't give a hoot about so called results, they are all made up anyway. I go by real life experiences.


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[Itchy]

[Annabella]

[zaknafien]

I'm half and half on the NHS,

When I want in 3 days after my crash with a broken wrist the doctor treated me like I was scum who was just there for the record for a claim, his attitude changed when the x-rays proved I did have a broken wrist.

When my other half had an ectopic pregnancy the doctors failed to notice the second fetus.

We've had to argue for a change in consultant's twice who weren't working in the best interests of our child, we knew something was wrong yet they were adamant everything was fine. A change in doc and lo and behold we were right.

I've seen nurses in the child ward's that were woefully under trained to do the job's they were doing to the point I refused to have 2 of them anywhere near my son.

But on the other hand the surgery's he's had and follow up care has been spot on and can't be faulted.

So yeah, half and half.
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[Annabella]

I'll probably get slated for it, but the gaping hole in quality is caused (generally, and in my personal experience) by GPs and some specialists who think they are far too important and underpaid (pah!) to actually deal with day to day issues.

Yet where a specialist takes a real pride in his skill you see real results. An example would be cancer treatment in Wolverhampton - we are fortunate enough to have a surgeon and specialist who are both proud, skillful and hard working, and the stats prove it.


As with any massive organisation there are extremes, good and bad - with room for improvement everywhere.
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[Mister James]

I have no time for the government's record on the NHS, but I accept that on the whole, huge swathes of it work well, and do a good job.

I encountered 2 extremes after my crash this time last year, which highlighted to me the inconsistent nature in which the government's policies provide results.

Hillingdon hospital, where I was taken in the ambulance, was a total shit-pit nightmare. A&E staff were competent but had no time to spend with me at all - to the point where my leg kept falling off the too-small bed, ripping open my broken pelvis, and it would take minutes for someone to come around and put it back up for me. (I had no control over my legs at that point).

The assessment ward was superb for the 2 days I was up there, but then the orthopedic ward was a living hell that nearly broke my will to survive! Poorly trained nursing staff that didn't speak english, support staff that chose not to speak english but jabbered away to non-white patients for hours, health-care assistants who managed such impressive medical feats as putting a 10kg heart monitor on my broken pelvis, and telling me that it was not their job to clear piss-bottles away on nights - I should either hold it in or keep the bottles on the table next to all my gear and food for the 10 hours until the day staff came in!
The doctors spent a week and about a dozen agonising scans and xrays trying to work out if they were competent to operate - and eventually decided that they weren't - all the while managing to keep me in the dark. I ended up smothered in my own shit because a nurse couldn't even be arsed to put a bed pan in the right position - and then had the temerity to try and laugh about it when I called him over - his attitude was addressed, I can fucking tell you!

St Georges in Tooting, on the other hand, was exception. Brightly lit, clean and modern wards, with (beautiful!!!!) caring African/Chinese/English nurses who genuinely gave a damn about my condition, and made the effort to come and see how I was doing even when posted to other units. One gorgeous African nurse ended up having a running joke with me about only smiling when she was causing me to pain, to the point where she demanded all the other nurses call her when I needed an injection, to try and lighten the mood. It became a twice daily occurence on the ward, and cheered everyone up - not to mention the far more important thing of me basking in her smile
The surgeons and consultants saw me several times a day to explain what they were planning and how it would pan out. On my first night one of them made the effort to come upstairs on his way out in the early hours, on the off chance that I was awake, because the nurses had mentioned I was hacked off at having been in hospital for 2 weeks without any progress.

I could go on for hours - but it seemed a pretty fucked up system where 2 hospitals within 10 miles of each other could be so different - one swamped with shit un-motivated agency staff, and one a centre of excellence with superb (and attractive) staff who actually gave stuff about the crippled little fellas on their wards.

I couldn't tell you what the solution to all this is, but my first guess is that it doesn't involve Labour.
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[TheDonUK]

One of the major problems in my experience with some NHS Trusts is the amount of management involved, The sheer amount of beauracrasy and "policy's" involved waste an inordinate amount of money. Its one thing if the NHS is getting more and more money in its pockets, not so however if there is a fuckin great hole in the bottom of them.

[Marcg868]

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