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From one of President Barack Hussein Obama's top medical advisers and his love and affection for NHS, their Single Payer System, Dr. Donald Berwick.
The full text of speech, A Transatlantic Review of the NHS at 60 , includes this beginning remark: "I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country."
Read more: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/July/07/berwick-british-NHS-speech-transcript.aspx
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U.K. Hospital Accused of Something So Disturbing Involving Patients Even Some Guards Allegedly Refused to Participate
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John Marchant, the former head of security at Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, told the U.K. Telegraph that staff routinely confines patients to their rooms — and sometimes to their beds — when they are a “nuisance.”
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“In many cases we are talking about patients known as ‘bed blockers’, elderly people unable to return home or with no residential care unit to go to,” Marchant said. “In these cases detention is being used simply because the patient become so frustrated at not even being able to go out for a walk in the hospital grounds because there are no staff to accompany them.”
“Some would go back to their rooms if you asked them, but others would have to be closed in and it would be very distressing for them,” he added.
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Hospital horror stories are far from rare in the United Kingdom. Between 2005 and 2009, up to 1,200 people were found to have died unnecessarily in Mid Staffordshire. Many others were found to be starving or dehydrated and left in complete squalor. This was the case where patients were found to be drinking out of flowerpots, they were so desperate.
In July, British doctors slammed the system as “worse than communist China,” condemning the “toxic professional working environment” created when abusive managers or bureaucrats have as much or more power than doctors themselves.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/10550923/Patients-were-locked-up-at-criticised-NHS-hospital.html
The full text of speech, A Transatlantic Review of the NHS at 60 , includes this beginning remark: "I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country."
Read more: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/July/07/berwick-british-NHS-speech-transcript.aspx
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U.K. Hospital Accused of Something So Disturbing Involving Patients Even Some Guards Allegedly Refused to Participate
[...]
John Marchant, the former head of security at Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, told the U.K. Telegraph that staff routinely confines patients to their rooms — and sometimes to their beds — when they are a “nuisance.”
[...]
“In many cases we are talking about patients known as ‘bed blockers’, elderly people unable to return home or with no residential care unit to go to,” Marchant said. “In these cases detention is being used simply because the patient become so frustrated at not even being able to go out for a walk in the hospital grounds because there are no staff to accompany them.”
“Some would go back to their rooms if you asked them, but others would have to be closed in and it would be very distressing for them,” he added.
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Hospital horror stories are far from rare in the United Kingdom. Between 2005 and 2009, up to 1,200 people were found to have died unnecessarily in Mid Staffordshire. Many others were found to be starving or dehydrated and left in complete squalor. This was the case where patients were found to be drinking out of flowerpots, they were so desperate.
In July, British doctors slammed the system as “worse than communist China,” condemning the “toxic professional working environment” created when abusive managers or bureaucrats have as much or more power than doctors themselves.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/10550923/Patients-were-locked-up-at-criticised-NHS-hospital.html
