We are trying to improve our local hospitals abilities on actually discharging patients with enough medication to see them through to an appt with GP and on discharging at reasonable times... Is it fair to phone up a patients parents at 3am in the morning to say their child is being discharged from a ward and can they collect???
Some of the discharge procedures are awful in hospitals.
The bureacracy now is dire with all the quango type groups like healthwatch, pgs, lpegs. Health & wellbeing forums, Cqc etc. All the different groups don't even talk to each other. For example... What on earth does a CCG Locality Business Support Manager do for a job??
Can you tell me why we hace Healthwatch and CQC with two layers of top heavy management in them when the could just be amalgamated and reduce stupid layers of excessive directors and management pay?
I know you refer to different aspects but honestly...since CCG's etc took over and rebranded themselves from PCT's the NHS has no direction at all.
Mental health is at the bottom of the pile for concerns...
My rant is finished. I think lobbying etc is fantastic but really how do you get a business to run efficiently or effectively when it is govt led? They need to look at businesses such as Amazon who has one priority... Their customers....they make huge profits and are not Crisis led.