C_J Where are these auxilalry staff you speak of? Do you not think we might have used them in the NHS when our ICU was running at 200% capacity?
You can’t just rock up and have a go at fiddling switched on a ventilator?
Everybody was speaking out.
It was being run by management consultants who see nurses as an all encompassing description rather than appreciate the specialisation required within different roles.
I don’t think we did see it as pointless to start with, but then the staffing issues kicked in and they had got way way ahead of themselves. They then had political capital invested so had to try and make it look like they were a resource that was never used because we were coping in hospitals. But we were not. Cancer surgery was the only thing that carried on. Hip and knee replacements are only just restarting.
Do you think we would have stopped all elective work if we could have used the Nightingales or had some auxillary workforce we could call upon.
Even doing hips and knees in the private sector is problematic because they have no high dependency units and patchy out of hours cover. Anyone remotely frail needs the support of all the services in an NHS hospital.
