RE: CRISIS POINT: East Lancashire hospitals in struggle to deal with patients
I am fed up with all the woes of the NHS being laid at the doors of the elderly.
It’s not our fault. I worked for four years in an office, then worked for 27 years. My husband worked from the age of 18 to 65.
Need care? Not likely. May I point out that Germany has four times as many hospital beds for 100,000 head of population as the UK.
That’s why ambulances are queuing at A&E. I myself had to be re-admitted twice following major surgery to free up a bed. Counter productive.
When I trained, nurses learned their craft on the wards and were part of the workforce, not in some ivory-towered university.
Furthermore, any nurse will tell you today they don’t get their legal breaks and have to do unpaid overtime to complete paperwork.
We also need more hospital beds and schools for immigrants and their dependants.
Our infrastructure can no longer sustain this rate of growth.
ME Bysh, Darwen
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