Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Starving hospital patients


Back to one of Dr Crippen’s greatest concern about NHS hospital care. The lack of hands-on nursing. Project 2000 made the only career pathway for nurses one that took them away from patient care and into jobs as “nurse-specialists”

Elderly patients in NHS hospitals are suffering from malnutrition.
There has been a persistent problem with patients not getting the nutrition they need while in hospital. The release of the figures, in a parliamentary written answer, follows a study by Age Concern into what it called "the scandal of malnourished older people in hospital". Nine out of 10 nurses told the charity's Hungry to be Heard survey that they did not have time to provide the elderly with the help they need at meal times. (Telegraph)
  • The NHS pays for more than 300 million meals a year, spending an average of £2.65 on each.

  • Hospitals are throwing away more than 37,000 untouched meals every day.
Meanwhile, what are all those “nurse-specialists” doing?

As Dr Crippen said in Ashamed of the NHS, we need to get our nurses back to nursing.

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