High-Risk and High-Infection Nottingham NHS Trust considering employing services of company who force staff to scrub toilets & then serve patients food in same uniform. The Nottingham University Hospitals Trust were identified in July as one of six Trusts in the country as being at “High Risk” by the Care Quality Commission, with both E-Coli and C-Diff infections higher than expected. On October 4th the Health Service Journal reported that the Trust had actually been fined approximately £40,000 after exceeding its Clostridium Difficile targets, and on October 24th were identified as being in the second highest risk band of the 6 band system recently introduced by the Care Quality Commission. One of the companies bidding for Nottingham University Hospital Trust services are Carillion, who run services at Swindon Hospital, where staff are currently balotting on industrial action on several issues, including the fact that the staff who clean wards and scrub toilets are then expected to serve patients food in the exact same uniform they’ve just scrubbed the toilets in. All this seems very strange behaviour by the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust who persist in trying to flog a dead “vision” of being the best Acute Teaching Trust in the country by 2016. Over five years since they first announced that vision, far from being anywhere nearer that vision, they continue to be one of the most high-risk hospitals in the country. It is not without irony then that the Chief Executive of Nottingham University Hospitals, one of the highest risk high-infection Trusts in the country, has been nominated for ‘Chief Executive of the Year’ in the HSJ Awards. One would ordinarily assume, perhaps being naively behind the times, that an NHS Hospital Chief Executive of the Year would logically be one of the chief executives of the lowest risk and lowest infection hospitals, but in today’s modern NHS, maybe it is awarded to the Chief Executive who hands over the most NHS services into the hands of the private sector. Full Story: gmb.org.uk/newsroom/carillion-swindon-new-dispute-ballot
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:36:23 +0000
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