Odd because the standard of care my Mother in Law was given for a heart attack two weeks ago was excellent, as was the treatment I had last week and today for my ear!
It would seem that you are once again taking your personal experiences and projecting them to be the norm again.
But that's what you're doing! You're taking personal, anecdotal experiences to dismiss my claims. For the record, I have worked in hospitals ranging from a suburban DGH (District General Hospital) to a London teaching hospital to a specialist heart hospital that takes everyone from the homeless to Premiership football managers (I won't go further as it may identify a patient). Your experience does nothing to counter my point: we give a certain standard of care to the elderly according to staffing levels. The only thing I would change is that it is
usually a shocking standard. You've picked an example that will virtually always have a good staff to patient ratio! Let's take a look at your mother in law's presentation (please correct as you see fit as I'm generalizing since I don't have specifics):
She phones 999 with symptoms of an MI - that is
1 on 1 with a dispatcher.
This is a priority call, as such an ambulance aims to be there within a nationally agreed upon target. There is a first responder paramedic in a rapid response vehicle and 2 staff arrive shortly after with transport to the hospital. This is
3 on 1.
She is taken to A+E resus where there is a nurse per 2 patient, or 4 patients if stretched. Since it wasn't winter I will assume it's 2.
This is 2 on 1.
ECG performed, Trop T test done and a diagnosis of "Query: Acute MI" is given. She is given drugs and taken for a PCI.
This is 1 on 1.
Recovery ward she is placed in a bay for observation. There is a nurse for every bay.
4 on 1.
She is moved to CCU, where she stays until discharge.
4 on 1 again.
This is of course presuming she wasn't moved to a general medical ward, but I'd have to wait for more details from you to address that.
Let's take a more typical presentation:
Elderly man has a fall in a care home, with worsening confusion. Dispatcher downgrades the call since it is not a priority leading to a 2 and 1/2 wait for transport to hospital with a 2 man crew.
1 on 1, then 2 on 1.
Taken to A+E minors where the nursing staff is routinely pulled into majors so the average time spent with patients is pretty poor. In fact he'll be lucky to see much of the nurse before being taken to a ward to ease the strain on A+E.
5 on 1.
This patient is transferred to a ward before the bed is ready to be swapped. He bypasses AMU and is left in a corridor while the nurses handover.
This practice is known as 'boarding' and is recommended by the RCEM (Royal College of Emergency Medicine). Zero nurse cover temporarily.
The patient is 'admitted' to the ward. I say 'admitted' because it's likely the full admission protocol won't be followed as there simply isn't enough staff to deal with the demands of the ward. It is a general medical ward, and has on average a
10 on 1 ratio.
Patient falls, misses meals and becomes dehydrated due to lack of fluid input.
NHS FTW!
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Now your also conflating the level of care driven by the patients needs and condition with offering a different standard of care based solely on a persons race and/or religion. The former is not what you are stating has a basis in law, the second is what you are claiming has a basis in law, not only doesn't it have a basis in law, but it is in itself illegal.
We know it's illegal, but the population is expecting us to work sometimes with 3 nurses for 36 patients (the last night shift on my ward) and treat everyone equally.
THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. We identify who is most likely to complain (pushy families, Asians as they are always on the ward and respect their elders much more than the indigenous) and give them preferential treatment so as to hide the fact that many wards are past breaking point.
Complaints are bad. We get called into meetings for complaints and matrons can be changed because of them. One of the complaints we received was that staff were caught making a toast for themselves from the loaves reserved for the patients. Bear in mind a lot of us take reduced breaks in a 12 1/2 hour shift and frequently stay over our allotted shift time end.
The public don't care that NHS workers are little more than slaves.
If you want a report on Government findings on the state of care provision, look up the
Francis Report
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I'm not the first and I didn't do the second, explain my preferential treatment.
I said "if your elderly relative". We are talking about elderly patients.
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That still doesn't give it a 'basis in law', not even close to one, as such you are still making what is clearly a misleading claim.
I was careful to never say "based in" (you said that not me) or has a "basis in" (again your words). I only ever said based on the law - it's a minor distinction but can change the meaning somewhat. If it makes everyone feel better should I say "based on statistics that suggest a more likely outcome of activity against the law"? I didn't realise I was writing a scientific paper.
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So Leicester/Birmingham/Bradford/London have ghettos that are the same as the Lebanon and now are also jails? That people can and do get radicalized in jail is not exactly a huge surprise, they also lead to an increase in gang activity and membership and turn first-time inmates into repeat offenders with better criminal skills. Are the jails now also ghettos and our Lebanon now as well?
I'm beginning to think that you have seriously lost the plot on this now, given that the only other place I have seen leaps made on this nature are from Britain First and its associated groups.
I.....er....what? You are dismissing this as well with personal attacks?
Have you even watched the programme?
Straightforward question: Is this Country's most immediate threat from Islamism?
EDIT: Since you brought up Lebanon, I'm presuming in a reference to my suggestion of looking up the background of Islamic infiltration I'd also recommend reading about the Deobandi branch of Islam, since this accounts for the major proportion (near 1/2) of all mosques in the UK. I'd look up the "Silk Letter Conspiracy" and advise getting familiar with what Imams and scholars can believe. As an example:
Medina in Birmingham Najaf in Brent
Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra is the sort of imam with whom the British establishment feels relatively comfortable . He is involved in interfaith work; he gives talks that are sufficiently uncontroversial to appear on BBC Radio 4’ s Thought for the Day; and during the World Cup he drives round his adopted home of Leicester with a St George flag adorning his car. Elsewhere in Leicester another scholar, Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, warns against excessive integration by advising followers to be polite to non-Muslims but not to take them as close friends. 1 Both men are the product of the Deobandi school of Islam and of its most important British institution, Darul Uloom al Arabiya al Islamiya, an Islamic seminary near Bury in Lancashire.
Or you can call me an impartial bigot who has lost the plot. (Well, someone else is more likely to say that)
It was also suggested by someone that all Bengalis needed to escape being a statistically proven 'drain' on society was even more help and understanding. Have a look at the latest news to come from the crook
they were forced to vote in
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/home/rahman_passes_immoral_care_cuts_amid_outcry_1_3988772
Understand that you are dealing with village politics of Pakistan and Bangladesh before you come with your idealistic nonsense that such communities are a victim of governments ignoring them. As I say time and time again, all other minorities faced hardship. It's time for them to grow up.
The mayor’s promotion of programmes teaching immigrants their “mother tongue” instead of investing in English was criticised by Conservative councillor Andrew White, who accused him of failing
to promote community cohesion.
“There are 22 foreign languages spoken by residents but we are only teaching Bengali, Somali and Lebanese,” he
said.
“How is community cohesion served if we are only teaching language for three mother tongues?”
He recommended prioritising English language programmes.
But Cllr Rabina Khan responded with hostility, citing the slave trade and imperialism.
“Don’t lecture me about cohesion when you forget the history of this country,” she said.
“People in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were not expected to ‘learn’ English. It was forced upon them and slaves.”
), I've worked my ass off for 15 years to get to the equivalent of a Band 7 payscale (6 days a week for most of it, less holidays in the past 8 years than anyone taking 1 year of their full annual holiday allowance, working from 6 am to mid-night if necessary - because that's one of the things it takes to make an SME successful), and one of our rewards as a successful company is to give a large chunk of our profits to the government by way of corporation tax (I would estimate about £132,000 over the last year).
