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There’s been a storm of protest in the Redditch area after Stewart
Messer, chief operating officer at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust put
his big foot in it. I’m grateful to the Redditch Standard for the Story,
written by Ian Dipple;
‘Stewart
Messer, chief operating officer at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust,
caused a storm after using the term 'safari rounds' to refer to doctors who
have to go and see medical patients who have been admitted to another speciality
bed.’
"We
have established safari ward rounds where clinical teams go out over and above
their usual ward rounds and go and seek out patients that could be discharged
earlier," he said.
As usual with stories that give away the contempt that
patients are held in, the first explanation is always that everybody does it;
‘But a
spokeswoman for the Trust defended the use of the term saying it had been used
nationally in the NHS for many years and the practice had recently been discussed
at the Royal College of Nursing Conference which had received national media
attention.’
Then they miss the point;
"The
definition of safari is 'an expedition' which reflects the rounds our doctors
sometimes have to make when we have large numbers of patients spread out across
the wards of the hospital," she said. "We are very disappointed as a
Trust people who were not at the board meeting have seized upon this comment
and sought to quote this out of context and infer the care provided to our
patients is not of the standard the people of Worcestershire should expect and
demand.
The problem is the image is a group of young Doctors, hareing
around the wards looking to see who they can kick out, whether or not that is
to the benefit of patients (the animals) or not.
When I keep thinking of jacking my other Blog in;
then I read this kind of stuff and I know I need to get on
with it again.
Neil Harris
(a don’t stop till you drop production)
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