[the truth]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

It's very recent very relevant information, and I'll ask you again to stop twisting what I say please.
Try to focus on what is happening now, this isn't a retrospective is it? What were these horrors... I see no evidence of that other than a very skewed overview.
Pay has nothing to do with performance I'm sorry but that's a nonsense.

Look at the link I provided there are many, many articles and academic reports that provide you with as much information as you like on all aspects of nursing..
Of course there are failings that's unfortunate but it isn't endemic, my take is that there is a sinister undercurrent that is hell bent on damaging public confidence in the NHS in the hope that it will ease the transition from public to private sector... I don't think anyone has grasped what that would actually mean if it happened.

you also ignore the fact that the overall number of staff employed by the nhs has grown hugely over the past decade and takes a lot of the pressure off nurses as they help with a lot of the menial tasks. sadly this has made nurses lazier.

your line about failings being "unfortunate" but not endemic is disgusting. totally fickle almost trivialising the avoidable deaths of thousands of innocent people. try to join up the dots on whats happened over the past decade and how its impacting on the present. you cannot discount the previous years it is all totally relevant and has lead us to the disastrous standards of nursing we have now seen. its apologists like you who empower and enable these bad nurses to continue their sub human disgusting practices. weve lost more british citizens to bad nursing in the past decade than we have in the iraqi and afghan wars combined.

if they dont care if they dont like the pay , quit. leave the job to people who do care enough to feed cloth people properly, to listen to sick people to put others first and at the very least to not allow people to die of thirst in their hospital beds. trouble shooters must be encouraged, bad nurses must be targeted and ousted immediately. leaving behind the good caring professional nurses to give the patients the treatment they deserve.