Sheffield Community Health shamed on hygiene

[Becky B]

Can you explain what that actually means please? Are the hospitals in fact hygienic?

 

I think it's been pointed out that it was the PCT named in the report that started this thread off, which deals with doctors, dentists, pharmacies etc.

Everyone suddenly started slating the hospitals, and I just wanted to get the facts straight.

I didn't comment on the hygiene of the hospitals

I met someone today who enjoyied his stay in the RHH so much he wants to book a holiday there! I think there are some people just want to pick something to moan about wherever they go, judging by this thread and many others on the forum...

[anabella]

Gosh, poor hospitals,let's slag them off again.....

Let's sort some things out.

Matrons HAVE been re-instated,but like the good old NHS is these days, they seldom see a patient.They are simply another tier of managers.

The foundation trust ( NGH,RHH Weston Park) is saving money, and domestic services has taken a hit. The poor domestics,who do an amazing job are run off their feet.

Cleanliness would be easier to achieve if vistors adhered to the code. No kids. 2 to a bed , do not sit on patients chairs or beds.

Yesterday, a rabble of a family, 2 kids 4 adults, sitting on bed, dropped food all over floor, used the patients toilet and pinching the patients tea!!!!

When I asked them to stop all of the aboveI was met with abuse,and called hitler!

It is a never ending task, always unrewarded.

Anyway-it was not the foundation trust so leave em alone for a while!

[DIVA]

Gosh, poor hospitals,let's slag them off again.....

Let's sort some things out.

Matrons HAVE been re-instated,but like the good old NHS is these days, they seldom see a patient.They are simply another tier of managers.

The foundation trust ( NGH,RHH Weston Park) is saving money, and domestic services has taken a hit. The poor domestics,who do an amazing job are run off their feet.

Cleanliness would be easier to achieve if vistors adhered to the code. No kids. 2 to a bed , do not sit on patients chairs or beds.

Yesterday, a rabble of a family, 2 kids 4 adults, sitting on bed, dropped food all over floor, used the patients toilet and pinching the patients tea!!!!

When I asked them to stop all of the aboveI was met with abuse,and called hitler!

It is a never ending task, always unrewarded.

Anyway-it was not the foundation trust so leave em alone for a while!

 

Where does the code say no kids? I thought it said kids at the nurse in charge's discretion? - don't you think ill people have a right to see their own kids? - and kids have a right to see their parents? as long as there's no obvious danger to them both - gee the family you mentioned may be right!

[Betty1]

Can we get back to the thread title - Community Trust issues please?

[BlackVelvet]

I think a hospital is the LAST place I would want to take my kids, i mean, all those sick folk. how do you know the bloke in the next bed dont have Hepatitis, or TB for example? and you want to expose your kids to it? (I exclude HIV, as these patients are often barrier nursed for their OWN protection, I mean, all those snotty-nosed kids speading germs around folk with a compromised immune system!)

 

community trust issues: all I would say is I go to work clean and hygenic, but i sure as hell never come home in my uniform. Christ knows what its crawling with by the end of my shift and im not taking that home to my family

[Betty1]

Pleased to see the title has been corrected - thanks mods !

[Ms Macbeth]

Pleased to see the title has been corrected - thanks mods !

 

Happy to oblige Betty1.

[anabella]

Where does the code say no kids? I thought it said kids at the nurse in charge's discretion? - don't you think ill people have a right to see their own kids? - and kids have a right to see their parents? as long as there's no obvious danger to them both - gee the family you mentioned may be right!

 

I didn't elaborate on the code, as we were already way off topic, but as you have made a point I will clarify mine. The code says children are allowed at the discretion of the ward manager.Not the nurse in charge, who could be a staff nurse. This family chose to ignore any of the code. I was not asked if the kids could come on the ward.

The patient in the bed opposite was dying, and I'm sure his family did not need noisy kids around.

Hospitals are a dangerous place for kids, sharps, infection, medical equipment etc.

If you have kids and are a patient, I have no problem with the kids and the patient sitting in the dayroom together, but definitely not running around.So if you think I am a hitler, it doesn't bother me, as at the very least I am trying to provide the best for all my patients, including the ones without kids.

So, let's hope if you come in with kids, you don't meet hitler!

[BlackVelvet]

well im guessing had the families kids in question been treating the place as a hospital rather than a playground, the nurse in question would not have felt the need to comment, but clearly they were not were they?

[DIVA]

I didn't elaborate on the code, as we were already way off topic, but as you have made a point I will clarify mine. The code says children are allowed at the discretion of the ward manager.Not the nurse in charge, who could be a staff nurse. This family chose to ignore any of the code. I was not asked if the kids could come on the ward.

The patient in the bed opposite was dying, and I'm sure his family did not need noisy kids around.

Hospitals are a dangerous place for kids, sharps, infection, medical equipment etc.

If you have kids and are a patient, I have no problem with the kids and the patient sitting in the dayroom together, but definitely not running around.So if you think I am a hitler, it doesn't bother me, as at the very least I am trying to provide the best for all my patients, including the ones without kids.

So, let's hope if you come in with kids, you don't meet hitler!

 

 

I've seen kids on wards that behave better than the adults, including in a safer manner to all concerned, so treating them differently to adults, is unfair. As for the patient across the ward, if the hospital could not provide him with the dignity of his own room for him and his family, if he was dying, that is a true shame and my sympathies lie with the patient and the family, but I'm sure this situation must arise day in and day out on wards and it's not up to others to suffer, compromises have to be reached. Kids have rights too - especially the right not to be tarred with the same brush. If adults let the kids behave inappropriately, the adults should be told, let's not take it out on all kids, it doesn't help anyone. As for sitting in the day room, the ones I have seen are absolutely filthy and smell - they get cleaned and looked after even less than the wards - I wouldn't like children to have to sit in them.