Economics -
National Health Service 6
Former
NHS staff have revealed how doctors and nurses
get their own back on rude patients. One nurse
admits fitting a catheter to a man who didn't
need one as revenge for him pinching their
bottoms. Other tactics include 'forgetting' to
give an anaesthetic and deliberately making
injections painful by using the wrong size
needle. Medical staff have also found a range of
objects found inside patients during internal
examinations, including turnips, potatoes, mobile
phones and light bulbs.
The
Department of Health's statistics show 1,054,700
people in England were waiting for in-patient
treatment at NHS hospitals in June 2002 - a rise
of nearly 17,000 which represents a rise of
16,900 or 1.6% between June 2001 and June 2002.
An
al-Qa’ida terrorist held in Britain had NHS
hospital treatment. Suspected mass murderer
Ibrahim Eidarous - held in Broadmoor while
battling extradition to the US - was sent to
Wexham Park hospital in Slough, Berks, for cancer
tests. Eidarous and two associates - one a Saudi
Arabian said to be Osama bin Laden’s top
henchman in Britain - were wanted over the
devastating 1998 bombings of American embassies
in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
which left 223 people dead and more than 4,000
wounded. The trio had been fighting extradition
for three years and had run up a legal bill of
more than £1MILLION bankrolled by British
taxpayers.
A
patient was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic
cancer at Weston General Hospital in
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, after suffering
several weeks of severe abdominal pain, and
without treatment had some months to live. He
resigned from his post as property manager for a
retail company the next day, and decided to take
his family on what he thought would be their last
holiday together. He spent £4,500 on a two-week
cruise to South America and the Caribbean - which
included a bill for more than £1,000 on life
insurance. However, when he returned, the
hospital told him that further tests had revealed
that he did not have pancreatic cancer. The cause
of his abdominal pain, for which he was being
treated with morphine, had still not been
diagnosed. He then faced a four-month wait for an
operation to remove a lesion on his lung, which
doctors had originally decided not to treat
because they thought he was going to die.
A
lapdancer who earned £500 a night was given a
boob operation - on the NHS.
Hospital
managers are set to receive 30% bonuses that
would take their annual pay close to £200,000
which would see senior managers taking home more
than many consultants. London's Guy's and St
Thomas's Hospital chief executive Dr Jonathan
Michael reportedly earned £171,000 in 2001-2002.
Trust chairwoman Patricia Mobley defended his
salary saying, "We need high-quality chief
executives. These people are rare. You won't get
them if you don't pay them."
More
managers than doctors were hired by the NHS in
2002, new Government figures have revealed. The
number of bureaucrats soared by 17.8% with 4,900
extra managers joining the health service. That
compared with the 4,000 extra doctors employed by
the NHS, according to a workforce census. NHS
staff increased by 57,808 (almost 5%) to a total
of 1.2 million. But the BMA said the Government
was not on course to meet targets for doctors set
out in the NHS Plan.
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