[DemolitionRed]

I had to leave the social service side of the NHS because I no longer agreed with its 'duty of care' standards. I couldn't work with a manager who used words like "get rid" when he was talking about patients. Everything was focused on reducing services and passing the buck to the local council who equally can't afford to deal with growing problems of a large aging population.

When you work for the Trust, especially if you're in admin, you know you're working for a private company. All the focus is on number crunching, cutting back on 'unnecessary' services and making profits. Staff aren't employed anymore on yearly contracts, they are employed on 3 month contracts and have to keep re-applying. The pressure to meet unreasonable deadlines is awful, the job often impossible. In the past 5 years its changed massively.