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Sometimes it can help to just scream it out what's [Removed] you off....
I'll start...
As my "company" (aid relief, but behaving like a company) changed so many things.... Our teamleader was thrown out, is a normal co-worker now... The shiftplans are "planed" centrally now (I can't even say it's planned, that would imply it has a structure, but it's just like throwing [Removed] on a paper). The shiftplan is.... just no. We work our asses off, have plushours galore and the other watch has minushours. So they have freetime enough and we thought about putting containers on the watch to live there, because we don't know why we pay rent for our flats - we're hardly ever there!... And the best shifts are always given to the temporary workers who already have a very good job, so they get the extra amount on money instead of us....
Next week I can finally take my annual leave from LAST year (by law you have to take it by 31th march by exception... I got it excepted even longer. I'm so ready for a holiday!
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@ComaChameleon wrote:
@Cleoriffit's sad when the love for the job goes away. Especially in a job where caring and love is very necessary. 😞
True @ComaChameleon and sadly this is why many nurses are leaving the profession even though they love it. The stress and inability to do their job to the highest level makes the situation hopeless. The more they do, the more they are expected to do. Obviously as nurses are the largest percentage of health care professionals in the NHS, it's always the nursing budget which is cut first. A lot of nurses stick with it. Others choose to leave... A sad state of affairs really 
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@Cleoriff wrote:
@ComaChameleon wrote:
@Cleoriffit's sad when the love for the job goes away. Especially in a job where caring and love is very necessary. 😞
True @ComaChameleon and sadly this is why many nurses are leaving the profession even though they love it. The stress and inability to do their job to the highest level makes the situation hopeless. The more they do, the more they are expected to do. Obviously as nurses are the largest percentage of health care professionals in the NHS, it's always the nursing budget which is cut first. A lot of nurses stick with it. Others choose to leave... A sad state of affairs really
I've seen so much of this as a long term inpatient. I got to know all the nurses so well and I've seen tears at times but I've seen them all smiling through adversity, always there with a smile, encouragement or harsh words when needed or deserved. I miss them all but I'm so sad and angry the way they have to cope under impossible stress and working conditions.
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I could write an essay on this @ComaChameleon but it might be boring for others 
In short, health care in the UK all started to deteriorate when
1) Hospitals for Elderly Care were disbanded and every one was closed down.
2) NHS Commission decided Care In the Community was a damn fine idea!! (Good in theory, in practice it isn't working at all)
3) The Griffiths report decided to restructure management and created multi-tiers of highly paid staff...which effectively reduced the budget at grass roots level of care. These top level managers have no background in medicine and can only see how to cut back on essential services. (and still leave the NHS in debt)
4) Elderly people are living longer and now are expected to be looked after by the community teams, who have also had their budgets slashed. So if the ill and elderly have family, they are expected to provide more than 50% of the care.
I could go on but won't.
I am delighted that research and development means we now are implementing surgical/medical procedures which were unheard of 20 years ago...but it costs money and there is never enough.
And don't get me started on MP Jeremy Hunt!!!!
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Today my collegue and I talked about something at the hospital during a cigarettebreak. Our other ambulance was at a person-under (train) scene (suicide). He is a teacher at a ems.-school too. And we talked about trauma-reanimation and how it's different in UK and here. So we came to the question how effective the UK-system is (opening the thorax to CPR) - it's fine and better. But the survival-rate is lower in UK, bc of the NHS and it's system. Not sure yet why, bc I don't know (yet) the differences... But that's hard in my opinion.
It's a similar development here. Sadly...
On another note (appreciation on our jobs) .... This night the proceedings of our new pay rates are done! 7,5% more wage during the next 3 years (every year 3,x ; 3,x and 1,x percent).... Our union didn't even demand that much! Plus 250€ on top one time and the 3,x% backdated to march!
Just awesome! 
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@ComaChameleonDelighted to hear of your pay rise 
However, not sure where you got the information about CPR in the UK?
I was responsible for setting up CPR training for all staff members at our hospital. (about 1200 staff)
We did the simple ABC technique. Staff were assessed on Resusci-Annie (a CPR dummy) and only passed if they scored over 98%
Even paramedics who attend a cardiac arrest, don't open the thorax. Nor do Dr's in Accident and Emergency or specialists in Coronary care.
Only on very rare occasions is the chest opened. During surgery or other very acute situations.
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They don't even do it as normal practice in Trauma related cases @ComaChameleon
However, I can only speak for the West Midlands area.
No idea what they do in London etc...although I honestly have never heard it's custom and practice anywhere in the UK? 
