Comments on: NHS Staff Need More “Resilience” /2017/08/25/nhs-staff-need-resilience/ Dr. Shan Hussain Tue, 27 Feb 2018 05:47:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 By: Zak Hussain /2017/08/25/nhs-staff-need-resilience/#comment-14 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:44:02 +0000 /?p=218#comment-14 It seems to me that the managers/administrators do not pay much attention to the clinicians’ requirements, their intentions and actions that they need to take in a clinical scenario—instead the focus is on outcome of the actions taken. Patients’ clinical needs and their care must never be compromised.
I firmly believe that anybody who works within the NHS must have a one to one exposure to the sick and unwell for a period of time to witness their level of suffering, may it be a high-ranking CEO from a financial background or a modest domestic staff.
As a practicing physician, I have experienced some major changes to its core structure and milestones of the NHS in England and Scotland since 1967 to the present day which includes, who makes decisions about NHS services, service commissioning and the way money is spent. Interestingly nobody talks about the care givers such as the nursing staff or ancillary and domestic staff who often leave a much lasting impression on patients.
I feel that there must be a more constructive dialogue between the administrators and the healthcare professionals. Through that exposure we can come up with better planning and deliver a much superior healthcare to patients than our predecessors who came up with great theoretical planning and brilliant ideas which did not work half the time—if they did, wouldn’t we just stick to that! At least six new ideas and new philosophy applied to improve the NHS over the last five decades, our debt situation has not improved—year on year it is growing exponentially.
There is a manager in each one of us and we must learn to manage our own affairs so that administrators could be freed to focus on other important issues.
Well, however grotesque this may sound, it is because of patients’ suffering and their helplessness, that we have bread on our table. Way before that bread passes down the gullet, the least we could offer those sufferers is TIME! Just ask yourself a simple question, years gone by why people still remember Florence Nightingale or Mother Teresa and not Joe Blogs CEO who retired with an OBE—you will have the answer.
The word “Resilience” is just another word for the managers/administrators to play around with until such time they find some more appropriate word! So, unless we collectively change our attitude we will be hearing this word “Resilience” over and over again for a while yet.

]]> By: Krist De La Cruz /2017/08/25/nhs-staff-need-resilience/#comment-12 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:10:44 +0000 /?p=218#comment-12 💥. Doing what you believe is highest and best for the patient!! I don't think integrity can be taught. You are blessed!]]> I would be honored to have a doctor like you!💥💥. Doing what you believe is highest and best for the patient!! I don’t think integrity can be taught. You are blessed!

]]> By: David Ainsworth /2017/08/25/nhs-staff-need-resilience/#comment-11 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:31:00 +0000 /?p=218#comment-11 I agree entirely with your sentiments. We need clinicians and managers pulling together more than ever for the benefit of our staff and ultimately patients.

Staff are our most valuable asset and we have to think of new ways to care for them. They need us as much as their patients need them.

We should start a national revolution of caring for our most precious resource.

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